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the three letters that mean a stranger's code is now driving your car.
means remote code execution: a security bug that lets an attacker run their own commands on your machine from somewhere else entirely.
from emerged from security research jargon as networks grew — once computers talked to each other, the scariest bug wasn't a crash, it was a crash you could weaponize into control.
severity ceilingusually rated critical, the highest cvss tier
bounty magnetcan pay six figures in bug bounty programs
root causeoften just unchecked user input, trusted too much