RHSA-2020:0978 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: zsh security update
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · March 26, 2020
Updated · June 25, 2026
Topic
An update for zsh is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions.
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.