CVE-2013-7069: Beyondgrep Ack

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 3.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

ack 2.00 through 2.11_02 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a (1) --pager, (2) --regex, or (3) --output option in a .ackrc file in a directory to be searched.

Affected products

• Beyondgrep Ack: version 2.00 only; version 2.02 only; version 2.04 only; version 2.05_01 only; version 2.06 only; version 2.08 only; …

Published 2013-12-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.