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Day Zero

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The "Day Zero" or "Zero Day" is the day a new vulnerability is made known. In some cases, a "zero day" exploit is referred to an exploit for which no patch is available yet. ("day one"- day at which the patch is made available).

MWE

Classifications

Entity Type

Vulnerability95%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
Day Zeroes
possessive
Day Zero's
pluralpossessive
Day Zeroes'

Framework definitions

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The "Day Zero" or "Zero Day" is the day a new vulnerability is made known. In some cases, a "zero day" exploit is referred to an exploit for which no patch is available yet. ("day one"- day at which the patch is made available).

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