{"id":"CVE-2019-14975","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2019-14975","generatedAt":"2026-10-29T00:58:02.214Z","title":"Artifex MuPDF before 1.16.0 has a heap-based buffer over-read in fz_chartorune in fitz/string.c because pdf/pdf-op-filter.c does not check for a missing string.","description":"Artifex MuPDF before 1.16.0 has a heap-based buffer over-read in fz_chartorune in fitz/string.c because pdf/pdf-op-filter.c does not check for a missing string.","published":"2019-08-14T13:15:11.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:19:26.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":7.1,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-125"],"affected":["artifex/mupdf"],"epss":{"score":0.01089,"percentile":0.65176,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.09%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=97096297d409ec6f206298444ba00719607e8ba8","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701292","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=mupdf.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=97096297d409ec6f206298444ba00719607e8ba8","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=701292","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14975","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}