CVE-2021-47970
Macaron Notes 5.5 Denial of Service via Buffer Overflow
Macaron Notes 5.5 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the application by creating notes with excessively long character strings. Attackers can generate a payload containing 350000 repeated characters and paste it into a note field to trigger application crash and stop functionality.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- High
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
CVE List Score used
Macaron Notes 5.5 Denial of Service via Buffer Overflow
Macaron Notes 5.5 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the application by creating notes with excessively long character strings. Attackers can generate a payload containing 350000 repeated characters and paste it into a note field to trigger application crash and stop functionality.
- Record
CVE-2021-47970- 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 - Weakness
- CWE-789
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2021-34829
Macaron Notes 5.5 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the application by creating notes with excessively long character strings. Attackers can generate a payload containing 350000 repeated characters and paste it into a note field to trigger application crash and stop functionality.
- Record
EUVD-2021-34829- 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 - Updated
- 2026-11-02
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-4439-4hh6-5j2w
Macaron Notes 5.5 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the...
Macaron Notes 5.5 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the application by creating notes with excessively long character strings. Attackers can generate a payload containing 350000 repeated characters and paste it into a note field to trigger application crash and stop functionality.
- Record
GHSA-4439-4hh6-5j2w- 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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X - 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 - Weakness
- CWE-789
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
NVD
Macaron Notes 5.5 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the application by creating notes with excessively long character strings. Attackers can generate a payload containing 350000 repeated characters and paste it into a note field to trigger application crash and stop functionality.
- Record
CVE-2021-47970- 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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X - 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 - Weakness
- CWE-789
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| first indexed | CVE List, EUVD, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2021-47970 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 8.7) in Macaron Notes Notes, published May 16, 2026. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.28%, the 21st percentile. No source names a fixed version.