CVE-2014-9274

Exp

UnRTF allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code as demonstrated by a file containing the string "{\cb-999999999".

Published: 2014-12-09 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2014-9274 is rated High Exploit Risk (77.1/100): CVSS High severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 5.83%, 92th percentile). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2014-9274

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2014-9274

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 5.94% 5.83% -0.12%
2 2025-04-08 5.67% 5.94% +0.27%
3 2025-03-30 — 5.67% —

Full EPSS history (12 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2014-9274

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.5 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 10.0 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2014-9274

OS Trackers for CVE-2014-9274

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2014-9274 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (unrtf), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9274
gentoo normal CVE-2014-9274: 1 GLSA(s) (201507-06), 1 atom(s) (app-text/unrtf); latest impact normal. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2014-9274
ubuntu medium CVE-2014-9274 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (unrtf), 14 status rows across 14 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, lucid, precise, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 9, ignored 2, released 2, DNE 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9274

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2014-9274

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
unrtf_project unrtf <= 0.21.6 cpe:2.3:a:unrtf_project:unrtf:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
fedoraproject fedora 21 cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:21:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mageia_project mageia 4 cpe:2.3:a:mageia_project:mageia:4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
debian debian_linux 7.0 cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
debian debian_linux 8.0 cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2014-9274

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