CVE-2021-45444

Summary

CVECVE-2021-45444
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-02-14 12:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:39:00 UTC
DescriptionIn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Apple Macos All All All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X All All All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.15.7 security_update_2020 All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.15.7 security_update_2020-001 All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.15.7 security_update_2020-005 All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.15.7 security_update_2020-007 All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.15.7 security_update_2021-001 All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.15.7 security_update_2021-002 All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.15.7 security_update_2021-003 All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.15.7 security_update_2021-006 All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.15.7 security_update_2021-007 All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.15.7 security_update_2021-008 All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.15.7 security_update_2022-001 All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.15.7 security_update_2022-002 All All
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.15.7 security_update_2022-003 All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 11.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 34 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 35 All All All
Application Zsh Zsh All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
About the security content of macOS Big Sur 11.6.6 - Apple Support CONFIRM support.apple.com
Full Disclosure: APPLE-SA-2022-05-16-2 macOS Monterey 12.4 FULLDISC seclists.org
About the security content of macOS Monterey 12.4 - Apple Support CONFIRM support.apple.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: zsh-5.8.1-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
ZSH - Release Notes MISC zsh.sourceforge.io
About the security content of Security Update 2022-004 Catalina - Apple Support CONFIRM support.apple.com
[SECURITY] [DLA 2926-1] zsh security update MLIST lists.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Advisory #63 - RyotaK's Vuln DB MISC vuln.ryotak.me
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: zsh-5.8.1-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: zsh-5.8.1-1.fc35 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: zsh-5.8.1-1.fc35 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
Full Disclosure: APPLE-SA-2022-05-16-3 macOS Big Sur 11.6.6 FULLDISC seclists.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-5078-1 zsh DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
Full Disclosure: APPLE-SA-2022-05-16-4 Security Update 2022-004 Catalina FULLDISC seclists.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159816 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for zsh (ELSA-2022-2120)
  • 179082 Debian Security Update for zsh (DSA 5078-1)
  • 179087 Debian Security Update for zsh (DLA 2926-1)
  • 184075 Debian Security Update for zsh (CVE-2021-45444)
  • 198699 Ubuntu Security Notification for Zsh Vulnerabilities (USN-5325-1)
  • 240283 Red Hat Update for zsh (RHSA-2022:2120)
  • 282390 Fedora Security Update for zsh (FEDORA-2022-adf0c6d196)
  • 282417 Fedora Security Update for zsh (FEDORA-2022-0a06987c3c)
  • 296063 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 45.119.2 Missing (CPUAPR2022)
  • 353180 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for zsh : ALAS2-2022-1757
  • 354358 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for zsh : ALAS2022-2022-180
  • 354424 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for zsh : ALAS2022-2022-117
  • 354494 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for zsh : ALAS2022-2022-034
  • 355236 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for zsh : ALAS2023-2023-035
  • 376607 Apple macOS Security Update 2022-004 Catalina (HT213255)
  • 376608 Apple MacOS Big Sur 11.6.6 Not Installed (HT213256)
  • 376612 Apple macOS Monterey 12.4 Not Installed (HT213257)
  • 500834 Alpine Linux Security Update for zsh
  • 504571 Alpine Linux Security Update for zsh
  • 671546 EulerOS Security Update for zsh (EulerOS-SA-2022-1594)
  • 671708 EulerOS Security Update for zsh (EulerOS-SA-2022-1778)
  • 690791 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for zsh (d923fb0c-8c2f-11ec-aa85-0800270512f4)
  • 751797 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for zsh (SUSE-SU-2022:0732-1)
  • 751799 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for zsh (SUSE-SU-2022:0733-1)
  • 751806 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for zsh (SUSE-SU-2022:0735-1)
  • 751807 OpenSUSE Security Update for zsh (openSUSE-SU-2022:0735-1)
  • 900674 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for zsh (8573)
  • 901957 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for zsh (8586)
  • 902118 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for zsh (8586-1)
  • 940493 AlmaLinux Security Update for zsh (ALSA-2022:2120)
  • 960224 Rocky Linux Security Update for zsh (RLSA-2022:2120)
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