CVE•Published 2026-05-16•Modified 2026-05-18•0 articles on news•7 live references•NVD data
CVE-2021-47972
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
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.
Timeline
Published 2026-05-16
Modified 2026-05-18
External references
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Shodan report
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Censys
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GitHub code
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Google dork
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Known PoCs on GitHub
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