RCE in Visual Studio Code's Remote WSL for Fun and Negative Profit

Re:RCE in Visual Studio Code's Remote WSL for Fun and Negati... by mikotodomo on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @05:44PM (#29643021)

I don't get the video https://parsiya.net/blog/2021-12-20-rce-in-visual-studio-cod... He goes to the hacker website and then calculator opens?

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Re:RCE in Visual Studio Code's Remote WSL for Fun and Negati... by jml7c5 on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @06:15PM (#29643301)

A common way to demonstrate an RCE exploit is to make the payload launch calc.exe, implying that you can run arbitrary executables. It's a bit of a meme.

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