🛡️ CVE-2025-68433 — zed

🟠 CVSS 7.7 — High ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-77 NVD
7.7
CVSS Score
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Description

Zed, a code editor, has an aribtrary code execution vulnerability in versions prior to 0.218.2-pre. The Zed IDE loads Model Context Protocol (MCP) configurations from the settings.json file located within a project’s .zed subdirectory. A malicious MCP configuration can contain arbitrary shell commands that run on the host system with the privileges of the user running the IDE. This can be triggered automatically without any user interaction besides opening the project in the IDE. Version 0.218.2-pre fixes the issue by implementing worktree trust mechanism. As a workaround, users should carefully review the contents of project settings files (./zed/settings.json) before opening new projects in Zed.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-68433 is classified as CWE-77: Command Injection. User input is placed into a command that the system interprets, allowing extra commands to be appended to the intended one.

Affected software

CVE-2025-68433 is recorded against 1 package.

  • zed (fixed in 0.218.2)

Timeline and source

Published on 17 December 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com
zed.dev

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.7
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-77
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2025-12-17
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
zed — 0.218.2

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