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Some Microsoft technologies as used in Windows 8 through...

Unreviewed Published Mar 27, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Aug 8, 2024

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

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

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 27, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Mar 27, 2024
Last updated Aug 8, 2024

Severity

Unknown

EPSS score

0.045%
(17th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2017-20190

GHSA ID

GHSA-6399-j99h-665c

Source code

No known source code

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