Description


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.

Related CPE's


Weaknesses



CWE-409

CVSS impact metrics


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

7.5 · High

Information


Source identifier

[email protected]

Vulnerability status

Analyzed

Published

2026-01-13T21:15:55.067Z

1 month ago

Last modified

2026-01-21T18:47:48.963Z

4 weeks ago