CVE-2019-14492
HIGH7.5EPSS 0.46%Out-of-bounds Read and Out-of-bounds Write in OpenCV
Published: 10/12/2021Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
An issue was discovered in OpenCV before 3.4.7 and 4.x before 4.1.1. There is an out of bounds read/write in the function HaarEvaluator::OptFeature::calc in modules/objdetect/src/cascadedetect.hpp, which leads to denial of service.
Affected packages (5)
- Debian/opencvfrom 0, < 4.1.2+dfsg-3
- PyPI/opencv-contrib-pythonfrom 0, < 3.4.7.28
- PyPI/opencv-contrib-python-headlessfrom 0, < 3.4.7.28
- PyPI/opencv-pythonfrom 0, < 3.4.7.28
- PyPI/opencv-python-headlessfrom 0, < 3.4.7.28
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
References (7)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14492
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-14492
- PATCHhttps://github.com/opencv/opencv-python
- WEBhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00025.html
- WEBhttps://github.com/opencv/opencv/compare/33b765d...4a7ca5a
- WEBhttps://github.com/opencv/opencv/compare/371bba8...ddbd10c
- WEBhttps://github.com/opencv/opencv/issues/15124