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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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-05-16 | Published 2026-05-16 | Updated 2026-05-18 | Assigner VulnCheck




HIGH: 8.7CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
HIGH: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Problem types

Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value

Product status

1.4.2
affected

Credits

Geovanni Ruiz finder

References

www.exploit-db.com/exploits/49957 (ExploitDB-49957) exploit

www.vulncheck.com/...y-notes-color-widgets-denial-of-service (VulnCheck Advisory: Sticky Notes & Color Widgets 1.4.2 Denial of Service) third-party-advisory

cve.org (CVE-2021-47972)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2021-47972)

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