CVE-2026-49146
HIGHCVSS v3.1: 7.5
Source data as of:
At a glance
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS
- 7.5 v3.1 · NVD
- EPSS
- EPSS not provided by FIRST.org for this CVE
- CISA KEV
- No
- Type
- Resource Exhaustion · NVD CWE
- Attack conditions (CVSS vector)
- NetworkNo privilegesNo user interaction · Source: NVD Vector
- Published
- 2026-07-08 · Modified: 2026-07-08
- References
- Jump to references (3)
CVSS / EPSS / KEV
Source — CVSS: NVD · EPSS: FIRST.org · KEV: CISA. Data & Sources
Description
App::Ack versions before 3.10.0 for Perl allow memory exhaustion via an unbounded context value in a project .ackrc. ack searches up the directory hierarchy from the current directory for a project .ackrc and loads its options. The -B and -C context options accepted any positive integer, and ack sized the before-context buffer to that value, so a project .ackrc setting --before-context=100000000 made ack allocate a buffer of 100 million elements. A project .ackrc committed to an untrusted repository can abort ack with an out-of-memory condition.
References
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