What is CVE-2019-14441?

CVE-2019-14441 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Libav. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2019-07-30.

How severe is CVE-2019-14441?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Libav

CVE-2019-14441

An issue was discovered in Libav 12.3. An access violation allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash), as demonstrated by avconv. This is related to ff_mpa_synth_filter_float in avcodec/mpegaudiodsp_template.c. NOTE: This may be a duplicate of CVE-2018-19129

Published 2019-07-30 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.012 (65.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 66th percentile — 65.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.012 · newest: 0.012 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Libav — versions 12.3

References

bugzilla.libav.org/show_bug.cgi (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking, Broken Link)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-14441?: CVE-2019-14441 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Libav. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2019-07-30.
How severe is CVE-2019-14441?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.