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technical vulnerability information

Definitions:

  A hardware, firmware, communication, or software flaw that leaves a computer processing system open for potential exploitation, either externally or internally, thereby resulting in risk for the owner, user, or manager of the system.
Sources:
CNSSI 4009-2022

  Detailed description of a weakness to include the implementable steps (such as code) necessary to exploit that weakness.
Sources:
CNSSI 4009-2022