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Zero-day attack

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

An attack on a piece of software that has a vulnerability for which there is no known patch.

MWE

Classifications

Entity Type

Vulnerability95%rule-basedr:entity.vulnerability.cve.v1
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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

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