'RCE vulnerabilities found in COBOL, update immediately' — a viral joke about legacy mainframe systems
djcows · x · 2026-10-22
djcows posted a tongue-in-cheek alert claiming RCE vulnerabilities were found in COBOL, urging everyone to "update all of your COBOL applications immediately." The post reads as satire: COBOL powers decades-old banking and government systems where flaws stem from legacy code rather than patchable packages, making the idea of a routine security update absurd. Best treated as a tech-community joke rather than real security news.
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