CVE-2026-50187 Oh My Zsh: Arbitrary Code Execution in oh-my-zsh dotenv plugin via malicious .env files

Oh My Zsh is a community-driven framework for managing Zsh configuration. Prior to 2026-05-28, the dotenv plugin in plugins/dotenv/dotenv.plugin.zsh passes ZSHDOTENVFILE to source after a directory change into a folder containing a .env file, allowing syntactically valid shell commands in the fil...

CVE-2026-50187

The dotenv plugin in plugins/dotenv/dotenv.plugin.zsh calls source on ZSH_DOTENV_FILE after cd into a directory containing a .env file, executing arbitrary shell commands with the user's privileges. Exploitation requires the user to navigate into a directory containing a malicious .env; no in-the...