CVE-2021-47971

Summary

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
my-notes-safeMy Notes Safe5.3affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-789: Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

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

References