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		tremon on Dec 23, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Windows 0day privilege escalation still not fixed Not true, some exploits are written by examining the holes fixed by a vendor security patch, then writing an exploit to target the systems that haven't been patched yet. Those are not zero-day exploits.

verroq on Dec 23, 2020 [–]

Usually we say vulnerabilities are 0-days instead of 0-day exploits.

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