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.

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Attack Requirements None

User Interaction None

Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact None

Vulnerable System Integrity Impact None

Vulnerable System Availability Impact High

Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact None

Subsequent System Integrity Impact None

Subsequent System Availability Impact None

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

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Vendor Product Default status Versions
sticky-notes Sticky Notes Widget affected
Version Status Constraints
3.0.6 affected —

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References
Link Providers
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/49978 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/sticky-notes-widget-denial-of-service-via-buffer-overflow cve-icon cve-icon
History

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

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Description 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.
Title Sticky Notes Widget 3.0.6 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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulnCheck

Published:

Updated: 2026-05-16T15:26:13.702Z

Reserved: 2026-05-16T14:32:06.209Z

Link: CVE-2021-47973

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Status : Received

Published: 2026-05-16T16:16:22.713

Modified: 2026-05-16T16:16:22.713

Link: CVE-2021-47973

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Updated: 2026-05-16T16:30:27Z

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