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CVE-2014-7947

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-7947 describes an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in OpenJPEG before r2944, specifically impacting PDFium in Google Chrome before version 40.0.2214.91. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service by providing a specially crafted PDF document. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0 (medium severity), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity, requiring no authentication, and resulting in a partial denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor is exploit code publicly available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, and it has received negligible community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 40.0.2214.85CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.73%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
75.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0173 is in the 61st percentile among its peer group of 23,723 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: chromium-browser-0:40.0.2214.91-1.el6_6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-7947Moderate

chromium-browser: out-of-bounds read in PDFium

Jan 21, 2015

References

googlechromereleases.blogspot.com / 2015/01/stable-update.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00005.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-0093.html
code.google.com / p/chromium/issues/detail
secunia.com / advisories/62383
secunia.com / advisories/62665
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201502-13.xml
pdfium.googlesource.com / pdfium/+/66d6538c0a97cff550cafdfeaebe8a3f0efbad89
securityfocus.com / bid/72288
securitytracker.com / id/1031623