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    24 hours ago

    Is there a non-sense free description.

    So far, i learned that notepad can open links from Markdown. I assume Markdown calls some Windows API open(link) where link is any string. That’s hardly a vulnerability by itself, that’s working as designed.

    Where does the code execution happen? Is it open(https://hackersite.com/exploite.exe)? Can’t be. They’re not that stupid.

    Is it open(file:///PowerShell.exe?atbitaryCodeHere)? Who would allow this?

    Or open(teams://magic/doThing)?

    This sounds like trying to blame notepad (and by proxy all app developers) for a design flaw in the ecosystem