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🔒 Fix command injection vulnerability in Windows notifications - #137

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🎯 What: Fixed a critical command injection vulnerability in the Windows implementation of the std.notification.show function.
⚠️ Risk: The previous implementation used unsafe string interpolation (&format!) to inject user-provided titles and bodies directly into a -Command argument passed to PowerShell. Although it attempted to escape single quotes, this filter is highly insufficient for a complex execution environment like PowerShell, leaving the system extremely vulnerable to arbitrary code execution by malicious users or scripts.
🛡️ Solution: Modified the underlying Command::new("powershell") execution to leverage environment variables instead of string interpolation. The title and body are securely injected as environment variables (__TS_TITLE and __TS_BODY), and the PowerShell script simply reads from them ($env:__TS_BODY and $env:__TS_TITLE). This completely mitigates command injection because the values are handled strictly as data by the OS environment rather than executable script content.


PR created automatically by Jules for task 9008419798713182077 started by @Tcode-Motion

Modified `stdlib/src/notification.rs` to securely pass dynamic string
arguments via environment variables (`$env:__TS_BODY` and `$env:__TS_TITLE`)
when spawning a PowerShell script on Windows. This eliminates the need
for naive string replacement escaping and directly addresses a critical
command injection vulnerability.

Co-authored-by: Tcode-Motion <188012755+Tcode-Motion@users.noreply.github.com>
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Tcode-Motion marked this pull request as ready for review September 15, 2026 08:19
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