Re: I've found a vulnerability in bash

[Chet Ramey]

On 11/17/21 4:16 AM, Marshall Whittaker wrote:

> This shouldn't happen beacuse you can drop a file and then redirect
> other code for example calling a script if you only have access to drop
> a file.  Say a cronjob was running every hour, and it did rm * on some
> folder, by expansion, you could expand it to -riv or whatever you
> wanted and redirect program flow from there.

That's just bad scripting.

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