Cyber Posture

CVE-2021-47972

HighPublic PoC

Published: 16 May 2026

Published
16 May 2026
Modified
16 May 2026
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score N/A
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-47972 is a high-severity Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value (CWE-789) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

NVD 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…

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application crashes and make the application stop responding.

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