What is CVE-2019-14958?

CVE-2019-14958 is a high-severity vulnerability in Jetbrains Pycharm, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2019-10-02.

How severe is CVE-2019-14958?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Jetbrains Pycharm

CVE-2019-14958

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.

Published 2019-10-02 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.019 (79.9th percentile), scored 2026-10-26.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 80th percentile — 79.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.019 · newest: 0.019 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Jetbrains Pycharm

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2019/09/26/jetbrains-security-bulletin-q2-2019/ (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-14958?: CVE-2019-14958 is a high-severity vulnerability in Jetbrains Pycharm, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2019-10-02.
How severe is CVE-2019-14958?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.