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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2019-14494

An issue was discovered in Poppler through 0.78.0.

HIGH 7.5EPSS 2.68%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.68%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

An issue was discovered in Poppler through 0.78.0. There is a divide-by-zero error in the function SplashOutputDev::tilingPatternFill at SplashOutputDev.cc.

CVSS 3.1
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
2.68% probability · 86th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-369
Affected
freedesktop/poppler · canonical/ubuntu linux · fedoraproject/fedora · debian/debian linux · redhat/enterprise linux
Source
cve@mitre.org
EPSS trend
0%3%5%27 October 2026: 2.68%27 October 202627 October 2026

EPSS 2.7% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.