ciguard — Vulnerability (CVE-2026-44220)
Date: 2026-05
Attack vector: path-traversal
Category: vulnerability-disclosure
Severity: Low
CVE: CVE-2026-44220
CWE: CWE-59
CVSS: 3.2 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N)

ciguard is a static security auditor for CI/CD pipelines. From 0.8.0 to 0.8.1 , the discover_pipeline_files() function in src/ciguard/discovery.py walks a directory tree following symlinks, with cycle protection via tracking visited resolved paths. An attacker who can plant a symlink in a directory the user (or AI agent) scans can cause discovery to walk into the symlink target and return paths to pipeline-shaped files outside the requested root. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.8.2.


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