CVE-2017-20190

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.

Data: CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, Ubuntu. Published as the sources state it, in English.

Affected products and versions

References and patches

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