Critical
Security advisory
ripgrep before 13 on Windows allows attackers to trigger execution of arbitrary programs from the current working directory via the -z/--search-zip or --pre flag.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-3013
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:45 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
ripgrep before 13 on Windows allows attackers to trigger execution of arbitrary programs from the current working directory via the -z/--search-zip or --pre flag.
osv:CVE-2021-3013
Complete source record
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