CVE-2026-49145: App::Ack 0 through 3.10.0

CVE-2026-49145. CVSS 3.1 base score 7.5 (HIGH, Source advisory). EPSS 0.00488 (percentile 0.41691), scored 25-Oct-2026.

Affected technology

App::Ack · 0 through 3.10.0
PETDANCE

Description’s affected range: versions through 3.10.0 for Perl read arbitrary files via --files-from in a project .ackrc. ack searches up the directory hierarchy from the current directory for a project .ackrc and loads its options

Component: Not specified by the source
Function: App::Ack::ConfigFinder::find_config_files, App::Ack::ConfigLoader::_process_other
File: lib/App/Ack/ConfigFinder.pm, lib/App/Ack/ConfigLoader.pm

Attack conditions (Source advisory, CVSS 3.1): Network (remote) · No privileges required · No user interaction required

What an attacker can do

Source advisory’s CVSS 3.1 assessment (base score 7.5/10) rates confidentiality and integrity impact as none; availability impact as high. The description does not specify what an attacker can achieve beyond these rated impacts.

Published 25-Oct-2026 21:45 UTC

CWE: CWE-73, CWE-426
CCR priority: 30.1 /100 (P4)
CVSS 3.1: 7.5 /10 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H · Source advisory
EPSS: 0.00488 · percentile 0.41691 · 2026-10-25
KEV: no

Provenance

NVD CVE API 2.0 · Source record · observed 2026-10-25 21:44:36.062275+00:00 UTC

Stable permalink: https://cybercodered.org/item/cve-cve-2026-49145.html