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by tptacek 2115 days ago
No. RCE is a term of art. It implies arbitrary native code execution.
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a1369209993 2115 days ago
> It implies arbitrary []native[] code execution.

This is simply not true in a plurality of cases (eg, it implies that applications running under qemu are incapable of having RCE vulnerabilities) and frankly sounds like a distinction that was made up to avoid admitting that script tags are RCE bugs in web browsers.

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tptacek 2115 days ago
It's interesting how much this little subthread recapitulates the experience of responding to the median bug bounty submission.
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a1369209993 2115 days ago
Well, modulo "responding to a submission" versus "reporting a vulnerabity", we can certainly agree on that at least.
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