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CVE-2019-14958

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-10-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-770

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.

Affected products

• JetBrains PyCharm: before 2019.2 — fixed in 2019.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: JetBrains PyCharm 2019.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2019/09/26/jetbrains-security-bulletin-q2-2019/
• https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2019/09/26/jetbrains-security-bulletin-q2-2019/

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