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CreateProcess has a really weird method 1 of inferring an executable name using space as a separator which poses a potential security risk of someone injecting a 3rd-party executable to be launched instead of the original one.

`CreateProcess` has a really weird method [1] of inferring an executable
name using space as a separator which poses a potential security risk of
someone injecting a 3rd-party executable to be launched instead of the
original one.

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/processthreadsapi/nf-processthreadsapi-createprocessw#security-remarks
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