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.
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 19:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

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


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

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared My-notes-safe
My-notes-safe my Notes Safe
Vendors & Products My-notes-safe
My-notes-safe my Notes Safe

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

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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.
Title My Notes Safe 5.3 Denial of Service via Buffer Overflow
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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My-notes-safe My Notes Safe
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulnCheck

Published:

Updated: 2026-05-18T18:50:19.752Z

Reserved: 2026-05-16T14:31:05.004Z

Link: CVE-2021-47971

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-05-18T18:49:45.702Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-05-16T16:16:22.463

Modified: 2026-06-17T04:18:51.290

Link: CVE-2021-47971

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No data.

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Updated: 2026-05-17T17:00:38Z

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