vulnerability
English
Noun
vulnerability (countable and uncountable, plural vulnerabilities)
- (uncountable) Susceptibility to attack or injury; the state or condition of being weak or poorly defended.
- The country recognized their defence vulnerability after an airplane landed in front of the central square without any consequences.
- (countable) a specific weakness in the protections or defences surrounding someone or something.
- (computing) a weakness which allows an attacker to reduce a system's security
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state of being vulnerable
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computing: type of weakness
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security vulnerability — see hole
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