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What does RCE mean?
by grimm8080 6mo ago
What does RCE mean?
- virtue3 6mo agoRemote code execution - aka they can run arbitrary code on the compromised machine via the bug. Basically the worst possible thing.
- snarf_br 6mo agoRemote Code Execution, which this isn't, in both cases. It is code execution.
- chrismorgan 6mo agoRCE stands for Remote Code Execution: being able to trigger arbitrary code execution (ACE) from a remote machine. This, however, is mislabelled: it’s not remote code execution at all, only local. It would only become RCE if there was some path to remotely triggering Vim to open the attack file, or Emacs the attack repository, or if a normal way of fetching a repository automatically set up and executed the hook.