CVE-2021-47972
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CVE-2021-47972 is a high-severity vulnerability rated 8.7/10 on the CVSS scale. 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.. EPSS estimates a 0.28% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Metrics
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
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Timeline
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- Status
- Deferred
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