> Maybe I'm out of the loop but is intentionality settled here? Yes. The exploit used a payload, that was stored in the tests directory as a binary compression

> Maybe I'm out of the loop but is intentionality settled here? Yes. The exploit used a payload, that was stored in the tests directory as a binary compression test case, but which is very clearly a very intentional exploit payload. All the sneaky stuff was about deploying that payload without it being obvious.