PoC Index

CVE-2022-23530

MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 0.7%

GuardDog is a CLI tool to identify malicious PyPI packages. Versions prior to v0.1.8 are vulnerable to arbitrary file write when scanning a specially-crafted remote PyPI package. Extracting files using shutil.unpack_archive() from a potentially malicious tarball without validating that the destination file path is within the intended destination directory can cause files outside the destination directory to be overwritten. This issue is patched in version 0.1.8. Potential workarounds include using a safer module, like zipfile, and validating the location of the extracted files and discarding those with malicious paths.

CVSS v4.0
2.3 LOWCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L
CVSS v3.1
6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS v3.1
5.8 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS v3.1
5.8 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS
0.70% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 51th percentile
Published
2022-12-16
Updated
2025-04-17

Proof-of-concept exploits (2)

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