CVE-2018-13259 — Improper Input Validation in ZSH

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation9 documents7 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
0.7%
top 29.15%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
ZSHDebian ZSHCanonical Ubuntu Linux
Timeline
PublishedSep 5
Latest updateMay 13

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages4 packages

▶NVDzsh/zsh< 5.6
▶debiandebian/zsh< zsh 5.6-1 (bookworm)
▶Debianzsh/zsh< 5.6-1+3
▶Ubuntuzsh/zsh< 5.0.2-3ubuntu6.3+2

Also affects: Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04, 18.04

Patches

Patch: bugs.debian.org ↗Patch: sourceforge.net ↗Patch: bugs.debian.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-8vj4-q4ww-8jf3: An issue was discovered in zsh before 5↗2022-05-13
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OSV
zsh vulnerabilities↗2018-09-11
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OSV
CVE-2018-13259: An issue was discovered in zsh before 5↗2018-09-05
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Zsh vulnerabilities↗2018-09-11
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Red Hat
zsh: Improper handling of shebang line longer than 64↗2018-09-04
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Debian
CVE-2018-13259: zsh - An issue was discovered in zsh before 5.6. Shebang lines exceeding 64 characters...↗2018
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-13259 zsh: Improper handling of shebang line longer than 64 [fedora-all]↗2018-09-06
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-13259 zsh: Improper handling of shebang line longer than 64↗2018-09-06
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