CVE-2021-47971
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CVE-2021-47971 is a high-severity vulnerability rated 8.7/10 on the CVSS scale. 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.. EPSS estimates a 0.28% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
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- Status
- Deferred
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