Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2019-14494

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-14494 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Poppler through version 0.78.0, specifically a divide-by-zero error in the SplashOutputDev::tilingPatternFill function. This flaw impacts various distributions including Canonical, Debian, Fedora Project, Freedesktop, and Red Hat. With a CVSS score of 7.5, it is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity and can lead to a denial of service. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.78.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:poppler:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
18.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
19.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:19.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
30CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
31CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.68%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0268 is in the 72nd percentile among its peer group of 51,553 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: evince-0:3.28.2-10.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: poppler-0:0.26.5-43.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: poppler-0:0.66.0-27.el8
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2019-14494Low

poppler: divide-by-zero in function SplashOutputDev::tilingPatternFill in SplashOutputDev.cc

Jul 11, 2019

References

gitlab.freedesktop.org / poppler/poppler/issues/802
ExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
gitlab.freedesktop.org / poppler/poppler/merge_requests/317
PatchVendor Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00014.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00030.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AHYAM32PALHQXL3O4DKIJ3EJB6AKBOVC
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DLAQBLBIIL3A5XZQYR4MG3Z4LIPIC42P
usn.ubuntu.com / 4091-1
Third Party Advisory