A while back I noticed some funny behavior that I thought was in virtual box at first, but it turn sour the reason I can do this is because of GKSu. I felt like the ramifications were fairly large, and contacting the (supposed?) maintainer of GKSu didn't work. https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2014/07/07/virtualbox-filename-command-execution-via-gksu The timeline is included, but what is funny is about the same time I noticed the behavior, someone opened a ticket eluding to this very thing, but they didn't quite make the connection (bug linked in the blog post). The reason I sat on it for so long was because I thought it was in Virtualbox, and really had no time to dig into why it was happening, I just knew it happened. Once I dug in, I realized it was GKSu that was actually what was causing me to execute the commands because it wasn't sanitizing its input. -- http://volatile-minds.blogspot.com -- blog