CVE-2019-14958 Denial of service in n/a

High 7.5 Published 2 Oct 2019 Updated 5 Aug 2024

An attacker can trigger a remote Out-of-Memory error in JetBrains PyCharm via uncontrolled memory allocation, causing a denial of service.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Not needed
Attackable: Over the internet
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2019-14958?

CVE-2019-14958 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 2 Oct 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

JetBrains PyCharm before 2019.2 was allocating a buffer of unknown size for one of the connection processes. In a very specific situation, it could lead to a remote invocation of an OOM error message because of Uncontrolled Memory Allocation.

Weakness: CWE-770

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-14958?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Jetbrains Pycharm.

How do I fix CVE-2019-14958?

No fix has been published for CVE-2019-14958 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2019-14958 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-14958 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-vm2v-9gwc-qh4r.