Cyber Resilience

CVE-2026-44972

Medium

Published: 27 May 2026

Published
27 May 2026
Modified
29 May 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0011 1.7th percentile
Risk Priority 35 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2026-44972 is a medium-severity Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output (CWE-116) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 5.0 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Hide Artifacts (T1564); ranked at the 1.7th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

A05:2025 Injection

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

GuardDog is a CLI tool to identify malicious PyPI packages. From 2.6.0 to 2.9.0, GuardDog includes attacker-controlled filenames, file locations, messages, and code snippets in its default human-readable output without escaping terminal control characters. A malicious package can therefore inject…

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ANSI or OSC escape sequences into analyst terminals or CI logs.

CWE(s)
CWE-116

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1564 Hide Artifacts Stealth
Adversaries may attempt to hide artifacts associated with their behaviors to evade detection.
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T1685 Disable or Modify Tools Defense Impairment
Adversaries may disable, degrade, or tamper with security tools or applications (e.
attack.mitre.org →
Why these techniques?

Terminal escape injection in security tool output directly enables hiding artifacts in logs/terminals and impairing defensive analysis of malicious packages.

Confidence: MEDIUM · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

Affected Assets

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

SI-15 Information Output Filtering
addresses: CWE-116

Validating that output matches expected content directly mitigates failures to properly encode or escape data for its destination context.

References