CVE-2026-44465: Zed

High severity, CVSS 8.6. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Zed is a code editor. Prior to 0.227.1, Zed IDE executes arbitrary commands when opening a folder with a malicious .git/config file that abuses the core.fsmonitor Git configuration option. This allows an attacker to achieve Remote Code Execution (RCE) when a victim open a folder in untrusted mode. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.227.1.

Affected products

• Zed Zed: before 0.227.1 (fixed in 0.227.1)

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