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Putting aside the misleading title...
Because this writes to and then runs an executable file with a known name, this script should never be used on a multiuser system in a directory where another user has write permissions. It is vulnerable to a timing attack where the attacker copies an executable they want run with your permissions between this script creating the file and running it.