Security vulnerabilities and automated fixes for named pipes issues
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A critical vulnerability in Tabby's UAC component allowed local attackers to predict Windows named pipe names generated with a weak pseudo-random number generator, enabling them to hijack privileged communication channels before the elevated process could claim them. This pipe squatting attack could grant unprivileged users the ability to inject commands that execute with Administrator or SYSTEM privileges. The fix removes the unsafe exec() pattern and replaces the predictable pipe naming scheme