RHSA-2020:0903 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: zsh security update
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · March 19, 2020
Updated · June 25, 2026
Topic
An update for zsh is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description
The zsh shell is a command interpreter usable as an interactive login shell and as a shell script command processor. Zsh resembles the ksh shell (the Korn shell), but includes many enhancements. Zsh supports command-line editing, built-in spelling correction, programmable command completion, shell functions (with autoloading), a history mechanism, and more.
Security Fix(es):
- zsh: insecure dropping of privileges when unsetting PRIVILEGED option (CVE-2019-20044)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.