CVE-2017-20190

Published Mar 27, 2024

Last updated 3 months ago

Overview

Description
Some Microsoft technologies as used in Windows 8 through 11 allow a temporary client-side performance degradation during processing of multiple Unicode combining characters, aka a "Zalgo text" attack. NOTE: third parties dispute whether the computational cost of interpreting Unicode data should be considered a vulnerability.
Source
cve@mitre.org
NVD status
Awaiting Analysis
CNA Tags
disputed

Weaknesses

134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
CWE-176

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