CVE-2026-27800: Zed

High severity, CVSS 7.4. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Zed, a code editor, has a Zip Slip (Path Traversal) vulnerability exists in its extension archive extraction functionality prior to version 0.224.4. The `extract_zip()` function in `crates/util/src/archive.rs` fails to validate ZIP entry filenames for path traversal sequences (e.g., `../`). This allows a malicious extension to write files outside its designated sandbox directory by downloading and extracting a crafted ZIP archive. Version 0.224.4 fixes the issue.

Affected products

• Zed Zed: before 0.224.4 (fixed in 0.224.4)

Published 2026-02-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.