🛡️ CVE-2026-44463 on Ubuntu — zed

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

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.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2026-44463 as tracked by Ubuntu, for the package zed. No fixed version has been recorded for this distribution yet.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Affected software

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-44463 is recorded against 1 package.

  • zed

Timeline and source

Published on 28 May 2026 and last revised on 4 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

ubuntu.com (Report)
www.cve.org (Report)
github.com (Report)

CVE-2026-44463 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-05-28
Updated 2026-06-05
Modified 2026-06-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
zed — —

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