SecuriTricks - CVE-2021-47969

Description

Color Notes 1.4 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 350,000 repeated characters and paste it twice into a new note to cause the application to stop responding.

Product(s) Impacted

Vendor	Product	Versions
Color Notes	Color Notes	1.4

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-789

Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value

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.

*CPE(s)

Affected systems and software identified for this CVE.

Type	Vendor	Product	Version	Update	Edition	Language	Software Edition	Target Software	Target Hardware	Other Information
a	color_notes	color_notes	1.4	/	/	/	/	/	/	/

References

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/49952

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/color-notes-denial-of-service-via-long-character-string

CVSS Score

8.7 / 10

CVSS Data - 4.0

Attack Vector: NETWORK
Attack Complexity: LOW
Attack Requirements: NONE
Privileges Required: NONE
User Interaction: NONE
Scope:
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: HIGH
Exploit Maturity: NOT_DEFINED

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

Published: May 16, 2026, 4:16 p.m.
Last Modified: May 16, 2026, 4:16 p.m.

Status : Received

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

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CVE-2021-47969