CVE-2026-44971

FAUCET Score

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 .

First published: May 27, 2026Last modified: May 27, 2026

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
DataDog	Guarddog	>= 1.0.0, <= 2.9.0CNA affected

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.2HIGH

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

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

NONE

Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

4.2

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

0.20%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

9.8%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0020 is in the 1st percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

pipGHSA-587r-mc96-6f2phigh

GuardDog has a blind GitHub URL rewrite in remote project scanning causes SSRF and `GH_TOKEN` exfiltration

May 11, 2026

References

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