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MSSQL Identified as Vulnerable to Emoji String Exploitation

Microsoft SQL Server's Windows Unicode collation compares a goblin emoji as equal to an empty string, so a login lookup matching a supplied email returns accounts whose email is blank. That lets an attacker brute-force passwords against those accounts without knowing a username.

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