{"id":106218,"date":"2026-02-11T16:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T21:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=098a794914bb9a00fac53ccbccf2449e"},"modified":"2026-02-11T16:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T21:15:10","slug":"microsoft-adds-and-fixes-remote-code-execution-vulnerability-in-notepad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=106218","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft adds and fixes remote code execution vulnerability in Notepad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osnews.com\/story\/144385\/microsoft-adds-and-fixes-remote-code-execution-vulnerability-in-notepad\/\">OSNews<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: ... Y'all.  \nThe shovelware to sell services and coerce user behavior to hit metrics, promotion driven development bloat and creep, and general not giving a fuck slopcoding landed an RCE in an automatic update to a 40 year old text editor in the default system image.\nWindows as a platform was closer to \"done\" in 2010 than it has been since.  The structural incentive that commercial software can never be done is a huge problem that keeps computing tools perpetually immature.<\/div><p>What happens when you slopcode a bunch of bloat to your basic text editor? Well, you add a remote code execution vulnerability to <code>notepad.exe<\/code>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote>\n<p>Improper neutralization of special elements used in a command (&lsquo;command injection&rsquo;) in Windows Notepad App allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code over a network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n[&hellip;]\n\n\n\n<p>An attacker could trick a user into clicking a malicious link inside a Markdown file opened in Notepad, causing the application to launch unverified protocols that load and execute remote files.<\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/msrc.microsoft.com\/update-guide\/vulnerability\/CVE-2026-20841\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8619; CVE-2026-20841<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&rsquo;t know how many more obvious examples one needs to understand that Microsoft simply does not care, in any way, shape, or form, about Windows. A lot of people seem very hesitant to accept that with even LinkedIn generating more revenue for Microsoft than Windows, the writing is on the wall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, the fix has been released through the Microsoft Store.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens when you slopcode a bunch of bloat to your basic text editor? Well, you add a remote c&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=106218\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}