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Re:Remote Code Execution in Slack desktop apps by tptacek on Saturday August 29, 2020 @07:02PM (#24320039)
No. RCE is a term of art. It implies arbitrary native code execution.
Re:Remote Code Execution in Slack desktop apps by a1369209993 on Saturday August 29, 2020 @07:36PM (#24320170)
> 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.

Re:Remote Code Execution in Slack desktop apps by tptacek on Saturday August 29, 2020 @07:39PM (#24320185)
It's interesting how much this little subthread recapitulates the experience of responding to the median bug bounty submission.
Re:Remote Code Execution in Slack desktop apps by a1369209993 on Saturday August 29, 2020 @08:39PM (#24320428)
Well, modulo "responding to a submission" versus "reporting a vulnerabity", we can certainly agree on that at least.