Server-side Request Forgery (SSRF) Affecting guarddog package, versions [1.0.0,2.10.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.2% (10th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-GUARDDOG-17230404
  • published8 Jun 2026
  • disclosed11 May 2026
  • creditbg0d-glitch

Introduced: 11 May 2026

CVE-2026-44971  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-918  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade guarddog to version 2.10.0 or higher.

Overview

guarddog is a GuardDog is a CLI tool to Identify malicious PyPI packages

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Server-side Request Forgery (SSRF) in the scan_remote() function for remote project scanning. An attacker can access sensitive authentication credentials and interact with internal network resources by supplying a crafted repository URL that causes outbound requests to attacker-controlled endpoints with embedded credentials.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1