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vul⋅ner⋅a⋅ble

  [vuhl-ner-uh-buhl]
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–adjective
1. capable of or susceptible to being wounded or hurt, as by a weapon: a vulnerable part of the body.
2. open to moral attack, criticism, temptation, etc.: an argument vulnerable to refutation; He is vulnerable to bribery.
3. (of a place) open to assault; difficult to defend: a vulnerable bridge.
4. Bridge. having won one of the games of a rubber.
Origin:
1595–1605; < LL vulnerābilis, equiv. to L vulnerā(re) to wound + -bilis -ble; see vulnerary

Related forms:
vul⋅ner⋅a⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, vul⋅ner⋅a⋅ble⋅ness, noun
vul⋅ner⋅a⋅bly, adverb
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vul·ner·a·ble   (vŭl'nər-ə-bəl)   
adj.  
    1. Susceptible to physical or emotional injury.
    2. Susceptible to attack: "We are vulnerable both by water and land, without either fleet or army" (Alexander Hamilton).
    3. Open to censure or criticism; assailable.
    4. Liable to succumb, as to persuasion or temptation.
    5. Games In a position to receive greater penalties or bonuses in a hand of bridge. In a rubber, used of the pair of players who score 100 points toward game.
    1. Liable to succumb, as to persuasion or temptation.
    2. Games In a position to receive greater penalties or bonuses in a hand of bridge. In a rubber, used of the pair of players who score 100 points toward game.

[Late Latin vulnerābilis, wounding, from Latin vulnerāre, to wound, from vulnus, vulner-, wound; see welə- in Indo-European roots.]
vul'ner·a·bil'i·ty, vul'ner·a·ble·ness n., vul'ner·a·bly adv.
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Vulnerability

Vul`ner*a*bil"i*ty\, n. The quality or state of being vulnerable; vulnerableness.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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vulnerability 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)

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