Sticky Notes & Color Widgets 1.4.2 Denial of Service
Priority HIGH 77CWE-789Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- Denial of service
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · High
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-789.
Summary
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 application crashes and make the application stop responding.
Why it matters now
Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00284 21st percentileScored 2026-11-07
Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by the CNA
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| sticky-notes-color-widgets | Sticky Notes Color Widgets | 1.4.2 | — | No fix listed | CNA |
- Sticky Notes Color Widgets Vendorsticky-notes-color-widgets Affected 1.4.2 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2021-47972
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-6vpc-p46x-xmf7
References
Exploit 1
Sources
- CVE-2021-47972 · CVE Program
- CVE-2021-47972 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-6vpc-p46x-xmf7 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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