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CVE-2022-23531

5.8 · MEDIUM

GuardDog is a CLI tool to identify malicious PyPI packages.

Published Dec 17, 2022CWE-23EPSS 0.73%

Overview

CVE-2022-23531 is a medium-severity vulnerability. It was published on December 17, 2022 and has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 5.8 (MEDIUM).

This vulnerability has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 5.8, rated MEDIUM. It can be exploited remotely over the network. No authentication or special privileges are required for exploitation.

Technical description

GuardDog is a CLI tool to identify malicious PyPI packages. Versions prior to 0.1.5 are vulnerable to Relative Path Traversal when scanning a specially-crafted local PyPI package. Running GuardDog against a specially-crafted package can allow an attacker to write an arbitrary file on the machine where GuardDog is executed due to a path traversal vulnerability when extracting the .tar.gz file of the package being scanned, which exists by design in the tarfile.TarFile.extractall function. This issue is patched in version 0.1.5.

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories, patches, and mitigation guidance. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

References

GitHubgithub.com/DataDog/guarddog/pull/89/commits/a56aff58264cb6b7855d71b00dc10c39a5dbd306GitHubgithub.com/DataDog/guarddog/releases/tag/v0.1.5GitHubgithub.com/DataDog/guarddog/security/advisories/GHSA-rp2v-v467-q9vqGitHubgithub.com/DataDog/guarddog/pull/89/commits/a56aff58264cb6b7855d71b00dc10c39a5dbd306GitHubgithub.com/DataDog/guarddog/releases/tag/v0.1.5GitHubgithub.com/DataDog/guarddog/security/advisories/GHSA-rp2v-v467-q9vq

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Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-23531?

CVE-2022-23531 is a medium-severity vulnerability. It was published on December 17, 2022 and has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 5.8 (MEDIUM).

How severe is CVE-2022-23531?

This vulnerability has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 5.8, rated MEDIUM. It can be exploited remotely over the network. No authentication or special privileges are required for exploitation.

How do I fix or remediate CVE-2022-23531?

Check the references section for vendor advisories, patches, and mitigation guidance. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

How can CyberStrike help with CVE-2022-23531?

CyberStrike is an open-source, AI-augmented pentesting engine. Rather than flag a version number, it tests whether an issue like CVE-2022-23531 is actually reachable in your own applications and APIs, then verifies each finding before reporting it. That tells you if the weakness is a real, exploitable risk in your environment or a false positive you can safely deprioritize.

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