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Glossary terms starting with V

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Vote Account

A vote account is a Solana on-chain account that records validator voting state, authorized voters, commission, credits, and reward history. Delegated stake…

Vote Transaction

A vote transaction carries a validator's signed consensus vote on-chain or through the network so fork choice, finality, and rewards can process…

Vote-Escrowed Token

A vote-escrowed token is a governance position issued or recorded when a user locks tokens for a chosen duration to receive time-weighted…

Vulnerability

A vulnerability is a weakness in design, implementation, configuration, process, or behavior that a threat can exploit to cause harm. For Vulnerability,…

Vulnerability Disclosure Program (VDP)

Vulnerability Disclosure Program (VDP) is a structured program that tells external researchers how to report suspected vulnerabilities safely and defines scope, communication,…

Vulnerability Management

Vulnerability Management is the continuous governance and operational process for discovering, validating, assessing, prioritizing, remediating, mitigating, accepting, and verifying weaknesses across technology…

Vulnerability Prioritization

Vulnerability Prioritization is the process of ordering vulnerability remediation using exploitability, active exploitation, asset importance, exposure, business impact, control strength, and remediation…

Vulnerability Scan

Vulnerability Scan is an attack or weakness pattern that automatically examines systems, applications, dependencies, or configurations for indicators of known weaknesses and…