CVE-2018-13259
N/A
Published: September 5, 2018 at 07:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:39 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsUbuntu LinuxZsh
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%
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
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Ubuntu Linux· Canonicalrubygems
95%Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (7)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2017x_refsource_MISCMailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugs.debian.org/908000Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00000.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-02x_refsource_MISCPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://sourceforge.net/p/zsh/code/ci/1c4c7b6a4d17294df028322b70c53803a402233dVendor Advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3764-1/x_refsource_MISCMailing ListRelease NotesVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://www.zsh.org/mla/zsh-announce/136Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-20
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