How attackers get a shell without injecting code: chaining ROP gadgets
tetsuoai · x · 2026-09-10
tetsuoai explains Return-oriented Programming (ROP): attackers can get a shell without injecting a single byte of new code by chaining ret-ending gadgets already present in the binary, effectively turning the stack itself into the program.
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