CVE-2026-44971

Published: May 27, 2026Modified: Jun 1, 2026Deferred

8.2

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 4.2

Source: security-advisories@github.com (Secondary)

Description

GuardDog is a CLI tool to identify malicious PyPI packages. From 1.0.0 to 2.9.0, the programmatic remote project scanning path rewrites attacker-controlled repository URLs using a blind string replacement and then sends the caller's GitHub credentials with the resulting request. This allows an attacker who can influence the scanned repository URL to trigger SSRF and capture the GH_TOKEN used by GuardDog. This vulnerability is fixed in .

Related CWEs

CWE-918

Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

The web server receives a URL or similar request from an upstream component and retrieves the contents of this URL, but it does not sufficiently ensure that the request is being sent to the expected destination.

References (2)

https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/security/advisories/GHSA-587r-mc96-6f2p

Source: security-advisories@github.com

https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/security/advisories/GHSA-587r-mc96-6f2p

Source: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

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