CVE-2021-47973

8.7 highEPSS 0.3%

High (8.7). EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Sticky Notes Widget 3.0.6 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 on iOS devices.

Severity

CVSS 4.0

8.7 high

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

CVSS 3.1

7.5 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 20% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-789
Published: 2026-05-16
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/49978
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/sticky-notes-widget-denial-of-service-via-buffer-overflow

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