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.

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Mon, 18 May 2026 17:30:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Sun, 17 May 2026 18:00:00 +0000

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Macaron-notes-great-notebook macaron Notes Gear Notebook
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Sat, 16 May 2026 15:45:00 +0000

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Description 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.
Title Macaron Notes 5.5 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: 2026-05-18T16:58:21.238Z

Reserved: 2026-05-16T14:30:32.190Z

Link: CVE-2021-47970

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-05-18T16:58:13.961Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-05-16T16:16:22.330

Modified: 2026-05-18T17:32:04.823

Link: CVE-2021-47970

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-05-17T17:00:39Z

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