CVE-2014-7903 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in OpenJPEG (before r2911) within PDFium, affecting Google Chrome versions prior to 39.0.2171.65. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service or potentially achieve other unspecified impacts by enticing a user to open a specially crafted JPEG image. With a CVSS score of 7.5, it is considered highly severe due to its network-based attack vector and low attack complexity, potentially leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. While no active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) has been identified, it has received some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness of the issue.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 39.0.2171.45CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.