Cmd Hijack - a command/argument confusion with path traversal in cmd.exe
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Last updated 26 abril 2025

This one is about an interesting behavior 🤭 I identified in cmd.exe in result of many weeks of intermittent (private time, every now and then) research in pursuit of some new OS Command Injection attack vectors.
So I was mostly trying to:
* find an encoding missmatch between some command check/sanitization code and the rest of the program, allowing to smuggle the ASCII version of the existing command separators in the second byte of a wide char (for a moment I believed I had it in the StripQ
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Cmd Hijack - a command/argument confusion with path traversal in cmd.exe

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