CVE-2026-44462: Zed

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Zed is a code editor. Prior to 0.229.0, Zed's terminal tool permission system can be bypassed via bash variable expansion chaining (${var@P}), allowing arbitrary command execution under an allowlisted command prefix. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.229.0.

Affected products

• Zed Zed: before 0.229.0 (fixed in 0.229.0)

Published 2026-05-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.