CVE•Published 2026-05-16•Modified 2026-05-18•0 articles on news•6 live references•NVD data
CVE-2021-47971
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
7.5
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS percentile
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Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
My Notes Safe 5.3 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the application by pasting excessively long character strings into note fields. Attackers can generate a payload containing 350000 repeated characters and paste it twice into a new note to trigger an application crash.
Timeline
Published 2026-05-16
Modified 2026-05-18
External references
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Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2021-47971Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2021-47971Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
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CVE-2021-47971Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
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Google dork
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Known PoCs on GitHub
No public proof-of-concept repositories found for CVE-2021-47971 on GitHub.
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