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    1 vulnerability by sticky-notes-color-widgets

    CVE-2021-47972 (GCVE-0-2021-47972)

    Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-16 15:26 – Updated: 2026-05-18 17:53
    VLAI
    Title
    Sticky Notes & Color Widgets 1.4.2 Denial of Service
    Summary
    Sticky Notes & Color Widgets 1.4.2 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the application by creating notes with excessively long character strings. Attackers can paste large payloads of repeated characters into note fields to trigger application crashes and make the application stop responding.
    Severity
    8.7 (High)
    CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
    7.5 (High)
    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
    SSVC
    Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
    CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
    CWE
    • CWE-789 - Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value
    Assigner
    References
    Impacted products
    Date Public
    2021-04-06 00:00
    Credits
    Geovanni Ruiz
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