CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-13259
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-09-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
An issue was discovered in zsh before 5.6. Shebang lines exceeding 64 characters were truncated, potentially leading to an execve call to a program name that is a substring of the intended one.
Affected configurations
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
• zsh zsh (< 5.6)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2017 access.redhat.com
- https://bugs.debian.org/908000 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00000.html lists.debian.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-02 Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceforge.net/p/zsh/code/ci/1c4c7b6a4d17294df028322b70c53803a402233d Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3764-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.zsh.org/mla/zsh-announce/136 Mailing List, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2017 access.redhat.com
- https://bugs.debian.org/908000 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00000.html lists.debian.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-02 Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceforge.net/p/zsh/code/ci/1c4c7b6a4d17294df028322b70c53803a402233d Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3764-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.zsh.org/mla/zsh-announce/136 Mailing List, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory