'severe vulnerability' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a person or thing as being in a state of extreme risk or harm. For example, "The country is facing a severe vulnerability in its defense systems due to budget cuts."
Haze's mother, "in a state of severe vulnerability", went along with it.
The bigger picture: "Tuesday's disclosure means that every major TLS stack – including Apple SecureTransport, GNUTLS,OpenSSL, NSS, and now Microsoft SChannel – has had a severe vulnerability this year".
The company did not respond to a request for clarification, but again updated the statement hours later to link to a security advisory warning users of a highly severe vulnerability.
Research has also been published by the World Bank, pointing to the severe vulnerability of women and girls, and by the International Labour Organisation, predicting a bigger rise in female unemployment than male in many regions.
The rewards are on a sliding scale, from $500 for a minor bug presented with no extra work other than identification, all the way to $38,000 for a severe vulnerability supplied alongside a proof-of-concept remote exploit and a patch to fix the issue.
Apple isn't commenting on the fact a teenager in Germany found a potentially severe vulnerability affecting all modern Macs.
Security researchers have found two severe vulnerabilities affecting several popular wireless access points, which — if exploited — could allow an attacker to compromise enterprise networks.
Perhaps most alarmingly, the recent record snowfall and Arctic temperatures exposed severe vulnerabilities in the city's creaking, underfunded subway system and commuter rail lines.
"But spending so much effort to produce these engineered varieties that then have severe vulnerabilities or cause new problems is not, I think, a very good strategy.
Lanier said that after finding severe vulnerabilities in an unnamed "embedded device marketed towards children" and reporting them to the manufacturer, he received calls from lawyers threatening him with action.
"The reality is that Europe still faces severe vulnerabilities that — if unaddressed — could degenerate into a stagnation scenario," David Lipton, first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund, said in London on Thursday.
