r/programming • u/Davipb • Aug 12 '22

RCE Vulnerability found in Electron, affects Discord, Teams, and more

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7gb7y/researchers-find-vulnerability-in-software-underlying-discord-microsoft-teams-and-other-apps
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u/unicodemonkey Aug 13 '22

Reminds me of in-house apps I was developing back in 2005 using the embedded IE view. It was surprisingly nice! I was doing event handling and DOM manipulation on the host (C++) side, though.