CVE-2017-20190
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Mar 26, 2024
- Updated
- Aug 8, 2024
- Reserved
- Mar 26, 2024
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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
- CWE-176 Improper Handling of Unicode Encoding
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
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