JetBrains PyCharm < 2019.2 Uncontrolled Memory Allocation DoS

high Nessus Plugin ID 379464

Synopsis

The Python IDE installed on the remote host is affected by a denial of service vulnerability.

Description

According to its self-reported version, the JetBrains PyCharm installation on the remote host is prior to 2019.2. It is, therefore, affected by a denial of service vulnerability.

JetBrains PyCharm before 2019.2 was allocating a buffer of unknown size for one of the connection processes. In a very specific situation, it could lead to a remote invocation of an OOM error message because of Uncontrolled Memory Allocation.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade JetBrains PyCharm to version 2019.2 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 379464

File Name: pycharm_CVE-2019-14958.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: windows, macosx, unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 11/12/2026

Updated: 11/12/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-14958

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:jetbrains:pycharm

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, installed_sw/PyCharm

Patch Publication Date: 10/2/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/2/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-14958

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