CVE-2018-0502

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    CVE-2018-0502

    Published: 5 Sept 2018Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: An issue was discovered in zsh before 5.6. The beginning of a #! script file was mishandled, potentially leading to an execve call to a program named on the second line.

    References: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00000.html, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-02, https://usn.ubuntu.com/3764-1/, https://www.zsh.org/mla/zsh-announce/136, https://bugs.debian.org/908000, https://sourceforge.net/p/zsh/code/ci/1c4c7b6a4d17294df028322b70c53803a402233d

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -b30b89418af2495c0d48a72573f908c4ecf05efd

    Affected versions

    zsh-5.5.1-test-2
    zsh-5.5.1-test-1
    zsh-5.5.1
    zsh-5.5

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High