CVE-2021-47972
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Vulnerability report for CVE-2021-47972, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.

Publication date: 2026-05-16

Last updated on: 2026-05-16

Assigner: VulnCheck

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.

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Published
2026-05-16
Last Modified
2026-05-16
Generated
2026-06-30
EPSS Evaluated
2026-06-28
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CWE ID Description
CWE-789 The product allocates memory based on an untrusted, large size value, but it does not ensure that the size is within expected limits, allowing arbitrary amounts of memory to be allocated.

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