What is GHSA-f83w-w68r-f82v?

GHSA-f83w-w68r-f82v is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with High severity. Color Notes 1.4 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the...

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-f83w-w68r-f82v cover?

GHSA-f83w-w68r-f82v covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2021-47969. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-f83w-w68r-f82v?

GHSA-f83w-w68r-f82v has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.5, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

GHSA-f83w-w68r-f82vHighCVSS 7.5

Color Notes 1.4 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the...

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

May 16, 2026

Last Modified

May 16, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2021-47969 →

📋 Description

Color Notes 1.4 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 350,000 repeated characters and paste it twice into a new note to cause the application to stop responding.

🔗 References (4)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-47969
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/49952
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/color-notes-denial-of-service-via-long-character-string
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-f83w-w68r-f82v