Text Editors

Pierluigi Paganini March 16, 2018
Hackers can elevate privileges by hacking into popular text editors

Following recent string of attacks that exploit flawed plugins, researchers at SafeBreach examined 6 popular extensible text editors for unix systems. Most of the modern text editors allow users to extend their functionalities by using third-party plugins, in this way they are enlarging their attack surface. Third-party plugins could be affected by vulnerabilities that could […]