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Vulnerability details: VCID-pbvs-jzwd-nfd6
Vulnerability ID VCID-pbvs-jzwd-nfd6
Aliases CVE-2026-44971
GHSA-587r-mc96-6f2p
Summary 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 .
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 8.0
Risk 4.0
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-918 Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
epss 0.00039 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2026-44971
epss 0.00039 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2026-44971
epss 0.00039 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2026-44971
cvssv3.1_qr HIGH https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-587r-mc96-6f2p
cvssv3.1 8.2 https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog
generic_textual HIGH https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog
cvssv3.1 8.2 https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/security/advisories/GHSA-587r-mc96-6f2p
cvssv3.1_qr HIGH https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/security/advisories/GHSA-587r-mc96-6f2p
generic_textual HIGH https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/security/advisories/GHSA-587r-mc96-6f2p
ssvc Track https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/security/advisories/GHSA-587r-mc96-6f2p
cvssv3.1 8.2 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-44971
generic_textual HIGH https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-44971
Reference id Reference type URL
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2026-44971
https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-44971
GHSA-587r-mc96-6f2p https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-587r-mc96-6f2p
GHSA-587r-mc96-6f2p https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/security/advisories/GHSA-587r-mc96-6f2p
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N Found at https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N Found at https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/security/advisories/GHSA-587r-mc96-6f2p
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:P/A:Y/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2026-05-27T16:08:56Z/ Found at https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/security/advisories/GHSA-587r-mc96-6f2p
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-44971
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.12134
EPSS Score 0.00039
Published At June 11, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-06-11T16:42:43.205972+00:00 Vulnrichment Import https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/blob/develop/2026/44xxx/CVE-2026-44971.json 38.6.0