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TI-2026-32834 Aliases CVE-2026-44972GHSA-m5p4-gvpx-4mvr

GuardDog: Unsanitized human-readable scan output allows terminal escape injection from malicious package content

Priority LOW 22CWE-116Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Local
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
Low · Low · None
Fix status
No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub.

Summary

GuardDog is a CLI tool to identify malicious PyPI packages. From 2.6.0 to 2.9.0, GuardDog includes attacker-controlled filenames, file locations, messages, and code snippets in its default human-readable output without escaping terminal control characters. A malicious package can therefore inject ANSI or OSC escape sequences into analyst terminals or CI logs.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00113 1st percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
DataDogguarddog2.6.0 – 2.9.0—No fix listedCNA
—guarddog (PyPI)2.6.0 – 2.9.0—No fix listedGHSA-m5p4-gvpx-4mvr
  • guarddog VendorDataDog Affected 2.6.0 – 2.9.0 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
  • guarddog (PyPI) Vendor— Affected 2.6.0 – 2.9.0 Fixed in — No fix listed GHSA-m5p4-gvpx-4mvr

CPE names Threatist (inferred) · 1

Inferred from how NVD named this product before; not given by a source.

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:datadoghq:guarddog:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*——Datadoghq
  • cpe:2.3:a:datadoghq:guarddog:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions — — ·Datadoghq

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-44972
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-m5p4-gvpx-4mvr

References

Advisory 1

Other 2

  • TI-2026-32833 GuardDog: Blind GitHub URL rewrite in remote project scanning causes SSRF and `GH_TOKEN` exfiltration CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.2
  • TI-2022-07587 GuardDog vulnerable to arbitrary file write when scanning a specially-crafted remote PyPI package CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
  • TI-2026-26107 dd-trace-java: Unsafe deserialization in RMI instrumentation may lead to remote code execution CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
  • TI-2026-81528 ReDoS in dd-trace URL query string obfuscation CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
  • TI-2026-80927 ReDoS in Datadog dd-trace-py URL query string obfuscation CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
  • TI-2023-20052 import-in-the-middle allows unsanitized user controlled input in module generation CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
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Sources

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