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security hole

n. (context computer security English) A security vulnerability in a software system.

Usage examples of "security hole".

If ISC opened customer systems to shipborne ansibles, that would mean a massive security hole.

The President, it was rumored, was not safely tucked into a maximum-security hole, nor was the Vice President.

But a couple of reasonable assumptions made a security hole big enough to shove a twenty-meter container box through that wasn't defined as a failure.

And their damned smith was all the time following me around, trying to find out if I had a security hole that he could crack.

There was a little gate at the far end of the wall around Companion's Field that would have been a dreadful security hole had it not been closed by three doorsthe final one of iron cunningly cast to look exactly like the rusty-brown stone that the wall itself was made of.