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The Windows Subsystem for Linux is bridging the divide between Windows and Linux by letting you run Windows 10 programs directly within a Linux shell.

According to advisories from the npm security team, the three JavaScript libraries opened shells on the computers of developers who imported the packages into their projects.

Since Linux is now available in Windows, you need not use any third-party applications like Cygwin. WSL should be enough for most of the scenarios to help you run a shell script in Windows 11/10.

Windows 10’s Bash shell can run graphical Linux applications with this trick It's not officially supported, but it's already very easy to use.

The researchers found it was capable of opening reverse shells, executing arbitrary system commands, acting as a proxy, uploading and modifying files, as well as adjusting settings dynamically.