CVE-2021-47944
HighWhat is CVE-2021-47944?
memono Notepad 4.2 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the application by pasting excessively long character buffers 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.
CVSS Vector Breakdown
CVSS 3.1Exploitable remotely over the network without requiring access to the local system.
No special conditions required. Exploit can be performed reliably and repeatedly.
No authentication required. Any anonymous user can exploit this vulnerability.
No user interaction required. Exploit runs without any victim action.
Exploiting the vulnerability only affects the vulnerable component itself.
No confidentiality impact. Sensitive data is not exposed.
No integrity impact. Data cannot be modified.
Complete denial of service. The component becomes fully unavailable.
FAQ
CVE-2021-47944 has a CVSS score of 7.5/10, rated as High. This is a high severity vulnerability and should be patched as soon as possible.
CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System) rates vulnerability severity from 0.0 to 10.0. CVE-2021-47944 scores 7.5/10 (High). Scores 9.0–10.0 are Critical, 7.0–8.9 are High, 4.0–6.9 are Medium, and below 4.0 are Low.
The list of devices confirmed to be affected by CVE-2021-47944 is shown in the "Affected Devices" section above. Check your firmware version against the vendor security advisory and apply the latest patch.
Apply the latest firmware or software update from the vendor. Check the References section above for official advisories and patch notes. If no patch is available, consider disabling the affected feature or isolating the device from untrusted networks.