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

CVE-2026-44463

Zed: Allowlist Bypass via Environment Variable Injection in Terminal Tool Permissions PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
zed-industries / zed	affected < 0.229.0

CWE

CWE-184, CWE-78

References

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/security/advisories/GHSA-c3g6-c3ff-69cg

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

No English description supplied.

No references supplied.