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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.

Here’s a compilation of things I reference with at my friends. I kept a list of things I referenced more than once for the last year and a half and finally finished editing them all together.