Detections
Analytics
CVE-2017-20190
critical
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