Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) Affecting guarddog package, versions [,2.7.1)
Threat Intelligence
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- published14 Jan 2026
- disclosed13 Jan 2026
- creditCharbel
Introduced: 13 Jan 2026
CVE-2026-22870 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade guarddog to version 2.7.1 or higher.
Overview
guarddog is a GuardDog is a CLI tool to Identify malicious PyPI packages
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) via the safe_extract function. An attacker can exhaust disk space and disrupt services by submitting a specially crafted ZIP archive with highly compressed data, leading to resource exhaustion during extraction.