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As GP said, lots of people use this amorphous term differently. Antivirus company ESET, for one, explicitly disagrees with your example:

'...The name “zero-day” comes from the fact that no patch yet exists to mitigate the vulnerability being exploited.'

https://www.welivesecurity.com/2015/02/11/security-terms-exp...



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