vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-5325-1 (CVE-2019-20044): Zsh vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Feb 24, 2020
Added
Mar 15, 2022
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

Description

In Zsh before 5.8, attackers able to execute commands can regain privileges dropped by the --no-PRIVILEGED option. Zsh fails to overwrite the saved uid, so the original privileges can be restored by executing MODULE_PATH=/dir/with/module zmodload with a module that calls setuid().

Solutions

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-zshubuntu-pro-upgrade-zsh-static
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