CVE-2026-44463 HIGH

CVE-2026-44463: Zed: Allowlist Bypass via Environment Variable Injection in Terminal Tool Permissions

Vendor Zed-Industries
Product zed
Weakness CWE-184
Published May 28, 2026
Last update May 29, 2026
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CVSS base score

8.6/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Confidentiality High
Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

May 28, 2026 CVE published
May 29, 2026 Record updated