By default, all Windows drives are mounted with read & write access (rw) within WSL . Though this is convenient for beginners, it opens up VM shell attacks on your Windows host files. Instead, we can disable the auto mount feature using wsl.conf and selectively add read-only drives inside the WSL VM using /etc/fstab Overview Deactivate “auto mount” in /etc/wsl.conf Enable fstab using MOUNTfStAB = true in wsl.conf test config files and mounting work well reboot the wsl VM to complete the s...