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Re:MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability by hulitu on Friday November 06, 2026 @01:20AM (#50388847)
Every program which has telemetry can. And web browsers.
Re:MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability by weavie on Friday November 06, 2026 @06:38AM (#50391135)
How?
Re:MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability by embedding-shape on Friday November 06, 2026 @08:22AM (#50391996)
> Every program which has telemetry can

I'd go out on a limb here perhaps, but I'd claim that if your telemetry means that the one SENDING the data gets a RCE by default by it, you're doing telemetry very wrong. Maybe look into different libraries/services than the ones you use today, please.

Re:MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability by port11 on Friday November 06, 2026 @08:45AM (#50392228)
But only these 2, only software with telemetry and web browsers. There are no RCEs in anything else…
Re:MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability by IAmBroom on Friday November 06, 2026 @09:26AM (#50392661)
Citation required for extraordinary claim.
Re:MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability by joshspankit on Friday November 06, 2026 @09:42AM (#50392894)
While I understand your phrasing getting downvoted, I agree with what I assume you mean:

1. Telemetry as implemented is usually sloppy. Even though intuitively one could think that telemetry means “data gets collected locally and fired off to a remote server”, we have seen time and time again that they also build a return path to make the telemetry gathering more powerful. That return path can be a vector.

2. Web browsers have a _huge_ surface and they connect to remote servers constantly. The industry does very well at being proactive and at addressing CVEs but the whole premise makes that very difficult and so we cannot absolutely claim that browsers don’t have RCE(s).

Re:MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability by embedding-shape on Friday November 06, 2026 @09:53AM (#50393035)
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Re:MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability by Someone on Friday November 06, 2026 @10:35AM (#50393617)
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Re:MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability by embedding-shape on Friday November 06, 2026 @12:00PM (#50395002)
Right, so you have the first step of something, but then depending on everything else, this is either a DOS or a RCE.

I'm claiming if "everything else" does indeed lead to a RCE, you're again doing something very wrong here. It's not rocket science exactly.

Re:MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability by Someone on Saturday November 07, 2026 @02:57AM (#50402577)
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Re:MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability by embedding-shape on Saturday November 07, 2026 @06:20AM (#50403553)
I'm sorry, but I still find it hard to believe you work with other professionals that when they implement telemetry in client applications, that usually ends up exposing a RCE on the client because of the telemetry implementation.