Vulnerability CVE-2017-20190


Published: 2024-03-27

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.

 References:
https://talk.dynalist.io/t/dynalist-is-vulnerable-to-zalgo/1234
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalgo_text
https://aka.ms/windowsbugbar

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