exploit

exploit

In computer security, an unethical or illegal attack that takes advantage of some vulnerability. See zero-day exploit and PoC exploit.

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(security)

exploit - A security hole or an instance of taking advantage of a security hole. "[...] hackers say exploit. sysadmins say hole" -- Mike Emke. Emke reports that the stress is on the second syllable. If this is true, this may be a case of hackerly zero-deriving verbs (especially instantials) from nouns, akin to "write" as a noun to describe an instance of a disk drive writing to a disk.