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CVE-2021-47970 (GCVE-0-2021-47970)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-16 15:26 – Updated: 2026-07-28 01:47
VLAI
Title
Macaron Notes 5.5 Denial of Service via Buffer Overflow
Summary
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.
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-05-18 16:58 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-789 - Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Macaron Notes Macaron Notes Affected: 5.5
    cpe:2.3:a:go-macaron:macaron:5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Date Public
2021-04-06 00:00
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