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CVE-2021-45444

7.8 highEPSS 2.0%

High (7.8). EPSS 2.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In zsh before 5.8.1, an attacker can achieve code execution if they control a command output inside the prompt, as demonstrated by a %F argument. This occurs because of recursive PROMPT_SUBST expansion.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
2.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 80% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

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