CVE-2026-44463
Zed: Allowlist Bypass via Environment Variable Injection in Terminal Tool Permissions
Vexday Risk Score
21Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS 8.6EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —
Lifecycle
28 May 2026Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
Zed is a code editor. Prior to 0.229.0, Zed's terminal tool permission system can be bypassed by prepending environment variable assignments to allowlisted commands, hijacking program behavior (e.g., PAGER) to execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.229.0.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
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