CVE-2021-47971General

LOWCVSS 8.7 · HIGH

Signal is active with 1 mentions in latest observed window

Immediate actions

  • Track advisory updates for patch or workaround availability

Recommended action window: Monitor and triage in normal cycle

NVD description

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.

0.0/ 10 priority

Sources & remediation

Weakness type (CWE)
CWE-789

Priority

LOW

Exploitation

NONE

PoC

NONE

Patch

NONE

Momentum

NONE

Threat summary

  • 1 mentions across 1 observed day

What's happening

  • Technical details provided in 1 signal
  • General: 1 classified signal
  • 1 total mentions across 1 day

Deep dive

Activity timeline1 mentions / 1d
00111Mentions · 2026-05-17: 1Technical Details · 2026-05-17: 105-17
Signal classification1 categories
General
1100.0%
Referenced assets1 URL
By indicator
Full discourse1 post
  • CVE@CVEnew
    General

    CVE-2021-47971 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 fi… https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47971

    Post summary

    The tweet reiterates that CVE-2021-47971 is a denial-of-service flaw in My Notes Safe 5.3, but provides no PoC, exploit, active use, or mitigation details.

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