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zero-day

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Adjective

  1. Of warez, released less than a day after the official product release.
  2. Of a vulnerability, newly discovered, and therefore still not fixed and possibly exploited by hackers or other criminals.
  3. Of an exploit or its threat or an attack, benefiting from a newly found and yet unpatched or unmitigated flaw in software or hardware; using a zero-day vulnerability.
  4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see zero, day.
  5. Alternative spelling of zero-day.

Noun

  1. A vulnerability that has been discovered recently, and is yet unpatched or unmitigated; a zero-day vulnerability.
  2. Alternative spelling of zero-day.

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