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CVE-2019-14493

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-08-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

An issue was discovered in OpenCV before 4.1.1. There is a NULL pointer dereference in the function cv::XMLParser::parse at modules/core/src/persistence.cpp.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 9.0
• OpenCV 3.0.0: before 4.1.1 — fixed in 4.1.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: OpenCV 3.0.0 4.1.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/opencv/opencv/compare/371bba8...ddbd10c
• https://github.com/opencv/opencv/issues/15127
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00028.html
• https://github.com/opencv/opencv/compare/371bba8...ddbd10c
• https://github.com/opencv/opencv/issues/15127
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00028.html

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