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.

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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
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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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulnCheck

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Updated: 2026-05-16T15:26:12.042Z

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

Link: CVE-2021-47971

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

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

Modified: 2026-05-16T16:16:22.463

Link: CVE-2021-47971

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