Vulnerability in N/a

CVE-2017-20190

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.

EPSS: 0.003 (17.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

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