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Comment by jjcm

I'm not sure I fully agree with this being a major vuln. There's a lot of up front scary text which was raising a lot of red flags until it actually discussed the "what".

An actor has to place a malicious .exe in the user's code folder, named git.exe, for this to take place.

I see this akin to something like saying "replacing their .bashrc with an alias that says `ls` instead executes `/tmp/mega-big-virus.sh` is a vuln".

Yes it's a vector, but if they've placed something in your filesystem like that already, you've already been compromised.

parent jjcm 3 months ago

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