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For my workflow, yes I don’t think it’s a severe security vulnerability. The same thing can happen with $home/bin.
by piekvorst 8mo ago
For my workflow, yes
I don’t think it’s a severe security vulnerability. The same thing can happen with $home/bin.
- ahepp 8mo agoI think it's substantially riskier. At the very least, it means you are trusting any directory you cd into, rather than just trusting your $home/bin. Stuff that would not typically raise eyebrows has been made risky. You might cd into less privileged user's $home, or some web service's data directory, and suddenly you've given whoever had access to those users, access to your user. Maybe you could argue "well, I just won't cd outside of my $home", but the sheer unexpectedness of the behavior seems deeply undesirable to me.