WINDOWS NOTEPAD APP REMOTE CODE EXECUTION VULNERABILITY

[solonovamax@tech.lgbt]

WINDOWS NOTEPAD APP REMOTE CODE EXECUTION VULNERABILITY

[solonovamax@tech.lgbt]

OH MY FUCKING GOD

[solonovamax@tech.lgbt]

CVE-2026-20841

[kemona_halftau@sharkey.skydevs.me]

@solonovamax@tech.lgbt my exact thoughts

- jade

[jeffmallozzi@twit.social]

@solonovamax

[jenetrix@tech.lgbt]

@solonovamax
WHAT..... WHAT THE FUCK!?

[rollerozxa@hachyderm.io]

@solonovamax exciting year

[cameron_bosch@floss.social]

@solonovamax It's insane that what should have been such a simple text editor application becoming so bloated that it gained security vulnerabilities to this degree!

[freya@chaosfem.tw]

@solonovamax W H A T

[solonovamax@tech.lgbt]

@freya ya

[0x4d6165@wanderingwires.net]

@solonovamax monopoly lets you get away with so much

[freya@chaosfem.tw]

@solonovamax I wish, I really wish, I could get the fuck off windows

[infoseepage@mastodon.social]

@solonovamax I want old Notepad back, the Notepad that is just an EXTREMELY basic text editor.

[solonovamax@tech.lgbt]

@Infoseepage apparently it's still there in system32

[cataclock@wetdry.world]

@solonovamax In... in a text editor? wh- what!?

What a time to be alive

[obfusk@tech.lgbt]

@solonovamax "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." ah

[kiloku@burnthis.town]

@solonovamax "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."

Why have they made their plaintext editor render markdown??

[groupnebula563@mastodon.social]

@solonovamax hang on WHAT