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CVE-2019-15939
An issue was discovered in OpenCV 4.1.0. There is a divide-by-zero error in cv::HOGDescriptor::getDescriptorSize in…
- 5.9MediumCVSS base score
- 2.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 15% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
An issue was discovered in OpenCV 4.1.0. There is a divide-by-zero error in cv::HOGDescriptor::getDescriptorSize in modules/objdetect/src/hog.cpp.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.5% · top 15% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.9.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
Affected packages4
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIopencv-contrib-pythonGHSA-hxfw-jm98-v4mq (opens in a new tab)
- PyPIopencv-contrib-python-headlessGHSA-hxfw-jm98-v4mq (opens in a new tab)
- PyPIopencv-pythonGHSA-hxfw-jm98-v4mq (opens in a new tab)
- PyPIopencv-python-headlessGHSA-hxfw-jm98-v4mq (opens in a new tab)
References
References4
- https://github.com/OpenCV/opencv/issues/15287 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/opencv/opencv/pull/15382 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:2671 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20211030 [SECURITY] [DLA 2799-1] opencv security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2021-2211 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-hxfw-jm98-v4mq (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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