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CVE-2021-47972
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cve id
CVE-2021-47972
published
2026-05-16T16:16:22.587
last modified
2026-05-16T16:16:22.587
status
Received
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.
cvss score
7.5
cvss severity
HIGH
cvss vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
cwes
CWE-789
cpe count
0
Cite this record
CVE-2021-47972 — HIGH. NIST, via Voidly Atlas — Surveillance & Digital-Rights Watch. Retrieved 2026-06-07, https://voidly.ai/atlas/federal/nvd-cves/CVE-2021-47972
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title = {CVE-2021-47972 — HIGH},
author = {{Voidly}},
howpublished = {\url{https://voidly.ai/atlas/federal/nvd-cves/CVE-2021-47972}},
note = {Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-47972. Public domain (17 U.S.C. §105); re-surfaced under CC BY 4.0},
urldate = {2026-06-07},
year = {2026}
}Also available as JSON/BibTeX/APA: API record. Source data is U.S. federal public domain (17 U.S.C. §105). Re-surfaced by Voidly under CC BY 4.0.