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CVE-2014-9654

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-9654 is a critical vulnerability in the Regular Expressions package of International Components for Unicode (ICU) for C/C++, affecting Google Chrome and other products utilizing ICU. It stems from improper handling of 24-bit field calculations, which can lead to memory corruption. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), indicating a high-impact denial of service or potentially other unspecified impacts, achievable remotely with low attack complexity. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 40.0.2214.85CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 55.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:icu-project:international_components_for_unicode:*:*:*:*:*:c\/c\+\+:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.42%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0242 is in the 72nd percentile among its peer group of 36,862 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

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
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: icu
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: icu
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: icu

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-9654Moderate

icu: insufficient size limit checks in regular expression compiler

Jan 21, 2015

References

bugs.icu-project.org / trac/changeset/36801
Issue Tracking
bugs.icu-project.org / trac/ticket/11371
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2015/02/05/15
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
chromium.googlesource.com / chromium/deps/icu/+/dd727641e190d60e4593bcb3a35c7f51eb4925c5
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
code.google.com / p/chromium/issues/detail
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201503-06
Third Party Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
securitytracker.com / id/1035410
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry