{"id":"CVE-2021-47973","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2021-47973","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T20:54:25.992Z","title":"Sticky Notes Widget 3.0.6 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the application by pasting excessively long character strings into note fields.","description":"Sticky Notes Widget 3.0.6 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 on iOS devices.","published":"2026-05-16T16:16:23.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T04:18:52.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"disclosure@vulncheck.com","cvss":{"version":"4.0","score":8.7,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M"},"cwe":["CWE-789"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00284,"percentile":0.20764,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.28%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/49978","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/sticky-notes-widget-denial-of-service-via-buffer-overflow","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-47973","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}