Is CVE-2014-7940 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2014-7940 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2014-7940?

CVE-2014-7940 has a CVSS v2 base score of 7.5 (HIGH).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2014-7940?

CVE-2014-7940 has an EPSS score of 2.07% (79th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2014-7940?

Upgrade icu on debian 11 to 52.1-7.1 or later. Fixes are available for 7 affected products.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2014-7940

HIGHEPSS 79th pctl

7.5

CVSS v2

NVD

Description

The collator implementation in i18n/ucol.cpp in International Components for Unicode (ICU) 52 through SVN revision 293126, as used in Google Chrome before 40.0.2214.91, does not initialize memory for a data structure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted character sequence.

CWE-399Resource Management Errors

How to fix

Remediation Available

icuDebian

Fixed in:52.1-7.1CVE-2014-7940

icuUbuntu

Fixed in:52.1-3ubuntu0.2USN-2522-1

libicu52Ubuntu

Fixed in:52.1-3ubuntu0.2USN-2522-1

liboxideqtcore0Ubuntu

Fixed in:1.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1USN-2476-1

oxide-qtUbuntu

Fixed in:1.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1USN-2476-1

oxideqt-codecsUbuntu

Fixed in:1.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1USN-2476-1

oxideqt-codecs-extraUbuntu

Fixed in:1.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1USN-2476-1

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v2 Vector

No CVSS vector data available.

Exploit Intelligence

2.07%probability of exploitation in 30 days

79thpercentile

Elevated risk: more likely to be exploited than 79% of all known CVEs.

References

Other references18

Related Vulnerabilities

Other CWE-399 (Resource Management Errors) vulnerabilities, ordered by exploit likelihood. View all

CVE	Severity	CVSS	EPSS	Exploited	Fix
CVE-2009-3103	High	10.0	90%	-	-
CVE-2009-0075	High	9.3	85%	-	-
CVE-2005-1790	Low	2.6	83%	-	-
CVE-2010-0806	High	8.8	82%	KEV	-
CVE-2009-2526	High	7.8	82%	-	-
CVE-2015-1868	High	7.8	82%	-	Fix

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2026-05-06.