CVE-2026-50187

A flaw was found in the dotenv plugin of Oh My Zsh. A remote attacker could craft a malicious .env file containing arbitrary shell commands. When a user changes into a directory containing this file, the dotenv plugin processes it, leading to the execution of these commands with the user's...

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...