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CVE-2017-20190

UNSCORED
NVD

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.

CWE-176

How to fix

No published remediation has been found for this vulnerability's affected products yet.

Mitigation guidance may be in the linked vendor advisories in the References section below.

CVSS v3.1 Vector

No CVSS vector data available.

Exploit Intelligence

0.26%probability of exploitation in 30 days
17thpercentile

Low risk: more likely to be exploited than 17% of all known CVEs.

References

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