CVE-2021-47969
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.
Published:May 16, 2026
Last Modified:May 18, 2026
EPS:May 16, 2026
EPSS Score:0.0004
CVSS Score:7.5
Affected Products
Vendor
Product
Action
Vendor
Color-notes
Product
Color Notes
Color-notes
Color Notes
Exploits
No exploit reference
Common Weakness Enumeration
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
No CAPEC recorded yet
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
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High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
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High
Integrity
None
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High
Availability
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High
