Vulnerabilities in the Vim and GNU Emacs text editors, discovered using simple prompts with the Claude assistant, allow remote code execution simply by opening a file.
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A simple prompt sent Claude Code on a mission that uncovered major security vulnerabilities in popular text editors — and then suggested ways to exploit them.
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