Security Advisory

CVE-2017-20190

N/A
UNKNOWN

Vulnerability 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.
Published Date March 27, 2024
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory