Description
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: 2026-05-16
Score: 8.7 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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History

Mon, 18 May 2026 20:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Sun, 17 May 2026 18:00:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Color-notes
Color-notes color Notes
Vendors & Products Color-notes
Color-notes color Notes

Sat, 16 May 2026 15:45:00 +0000

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Description 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.
Title Color Notes 1.4 Denial of Service via Long Character String
Weaknesses CWE-789
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.7, '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'}


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Color-notes Color Notes
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulnCheck

Published:

Updated: 2026-05-18T19:55:22.515Z

Reserved: 2026-05-16T14:29:45.604Z

Link: CVE-2021-47969

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-05-18T19:55:16.051Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-05-16T16:16:22.170

Modified: 2026-06-17T04:18:51.070

Link: CVE-2021-47969

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-05-17T17:00:41Z

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