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CVE-2026-22870

GuardDog Zip Bomb Vulnerability in safe_extract() Allows DoS PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

GuardDog is a CLI tool to identify malicious PyPI packages. Prior to 2.7.1, GuardDog's safe_extract() function does not validate decompressed file sizes when extracting ZIP archives (wheels, eggs), allowing attackers to cause denial of service through zip bombs. A malicious package can consume gigabytes of disk space from a few megabytes of compressed data. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.7.1.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
DataDog / guarddogaffected < 2.7.1

CWE

CWE-409

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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