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Comment by rcxdude

5 hours ago

Zero day means that there is zero days between a patch being available and the vulnerability being disclosed (as opposed to the patch being available before disclosure).

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Dylan16807  2 hours ago

Discovering a zero day implies that there is no patch, but the term is talking about how long the vendor has known about the vulnerability.

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