zed-industries zed up to 0.197.2 Agent Panel authentication bypass

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A vulnerability was found in zed-industries zed up to 0.197.2. It has been declared as critical. This affects an unknown part of the component Agent Panel. Executing a manipulation can lead to authentication bypass. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-55012. It is possible to launch the attack on the local host. There is not any exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability has been found in zed-industries zed up to 0.197.2 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects some unknown processing of the component Agent Panel. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a authentication bypass vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-288. A product requires authentication, but the product has an alternate path or channel that does not require authentication. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Zed is a multiplayer code editor. Prior to version 0.197.3, in the Zed Agent Panel allowed for an AI agent to achieve Remote Code Execution (RCE) by bypassing user permission checks. An AI Agent could have exploited a permissions bypass vulnerability to create or modify a project-specific configuration file, leading to the execution of arbitrary commands on a victim's machine without the explicit approval that would otherwise be required. This vulnerability has been patched in version 0.197.3. A workaround for this issue involves either avoid sending prompts to the Agent Panel, or to limit the AI Agent's file system access.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2025-55012 since 08/04/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

Upgrading to version 0.197.3 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• zed-industries

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• zed

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• 0.197.0
• 0.197.1
• 0.197.2

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• Product: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/

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