Tilde in PATH Security: Why Quoted '~' Breaks and How to Fix It

Quoting a tilde in PATH suppresses expansion, creating a literal '~' entry that resolves relative to the current working directory. If an attacker can write to that relative path and PATH search order reaches it, the shell executes the foreign binary. Here is how to audit your shell configuration and replace literal tildes with $HOME.

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