vulnerability
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (2)vulnerabilities
- the state of being vulnerable or exposed“his vulnerability to litigation”“his exposure to ridicule”Synonyms: exposureType of danger
- susceptibility to injury or attackOpposite invulnerabilityType of weaknessKinds exposure, defenselessness, fragility, destructibility, assailability
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Translations
Noun state of being vulnerable
- Spanish
- vulnerabilidad
- French
- vulnérabilité
- German
- Verwundbarkeit
- Italian
- vulnerabilità
- Portuguese
- vulnerabilidade
- Russian
- уязви́мость ujazvímostʹ
- Chinese
- 脆弱性 cuìruòxìng
- Japanese
- 脆弱性 zeijakusei
- Dutch
- kwetsbaarheid
- Polish
- wrażliwość
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- Swedish
- sårbarhet
- Korean
- 취약성 chwiyakseong
- Indonesian
- kerentanan
- Hungarian
- sebezhetőség
- Portuguese (PT)
- vulnerabilidade
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 脆弱性 cuìruòxìng
- Catalan
- vulnerabilitat
- Czech
- zranitelnost
- Finnish
- haavoittuvuus
- Romanian
- vulnerabilitate
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
The quality or state of being vulnerable; vulnerableness.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
<security> A bug or feature of a system that exposes it to possible attack, a flaw in the system's security.
A common example of a vulnerability due to a bug is buffer overrun, where carefully constructed input can allow an attacker to insert arbitrary code into a running program and have it executed.
The most serious vulnerabilities are those in network software, especially if they exploit traffic that is allowed through the firewall like HTTP, for example exploiting a bug in a web browser.
The Open Source Vulnerability Database lists many vulnerabilities.
(2007-12-02)