CVE-2026-44462

6.4 MEDIUM

Zed is a code editor

Published: 2026-05-28 · Last updated: 2026-06-03

Severity and scoring

CVSS: 6.4 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L
CWE: CWE-184

Affected products

Vendor	Product
zed	zed

Description

Zed is a code editor. Prior to 0.229.0, Zed's terminal tool permission system can be bypassed via bash variable expansion chaining (${var@P}), allowing arbitrary command execution under an allowlisted command prefix. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.229.0.

Source: NVD

References

[NVD]https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-44462
[Vendor advisory]https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/security/advisories/GHSA-rqq3-p6x4-q866

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