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Drag and Pwnd: Leverage ASCII characters to exploit VS Code

Control characters like SOH, STX, EOT and ETX were never meant to run your code - but in the world of modern terminal emulators, they sometimes do. In this post, I'll dive into the forgotten mechanics

Reference details

Source category
Research & news
Report title
Drag and Pwnd: Leverage ASCII characters to exploit VS Code
First reported
Apr 30, 2025 12:37 UTC
Last reported
Apr 30, 2025 12:37 UTC
Catalog updated
Oct 08, 2026 03:48 UTC
Record ID
1d4a36fea06e8a3f9089e0f07aaabaa0133ba5b2393a24da16a4ea29b0ec61a0

Published indicators

Network indicators are visibly defanged. This page does not make them clickable or send them to another service.

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Source observations

src_7bb5dc91e27122ebf3

Source-provided label
Not reported
Evidence class
mentioned in report
Confidence
Not reported
Observed
Apr 30, 2025 12:37 UTC
Retrieved
Oct 08, 2026 03:48 UTC

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1 sources: 0 stale, 0 needing attention, 0 paused, 1 unverified.

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  • src_7bb5dc91e27122ebf3Collection status unverifiedLast successful batch: Unverified

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