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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
CWE
- CWE-789 - Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value
Assigner
References
2 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/49957 | exploit |
| https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/sticky-notes… | third-party-advisory |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| sticky-notes-color-widgets | Sticky Notes Color Widgets |
Affected:
1.4.2
|
Date Public
2021-04-06 00:00
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