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A remote code execution vulnerability has been found in Microslop Notepad (msrc.microsoft.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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They finally did it. Microsoft has successfully over-engineered a text editor into a threat vector.

This CVE is an 8.8 severity RCE in Notepad of all things.

Apparently, the "innovation" of adding markdown support came with the ability of launching unverified protocols that load and execute remote files.

We have reached a point where the simple act of opening a .md file in a native utility can compromise your system.

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[–] 2 points 7 months ago

Ah. I use regex replace every week with matching substrings a good few times a month. It's not any slower to load than notepad and considerably less annoying.

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