CVE-2021-47969

Summary

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
color-notesColor Notes1.4affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-789: Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: poc
    • Automatable: yes
    • Technical Impact: partial

References