CVE-2026-44972

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 5.0 Medium

Status

Deferred - security-advisories@github.com

Published

2026-05-27

Last modified

2026-10-26

Weaknesses

CWE-116

Affected products

• Guarddog (Datadog)

References

• https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/security/advisories/GHSA-m5p4-gvpx-4mvr