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medium 5.0

CVE-2014-9016 json

The password hashing API in Drupal 7.x before 7.34 and the Secure Password Hashes (aka phpass) module 6.x-2.x before 6.x-2.1 for Drupal all…

published 2014-11-24 11 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2014-8844

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
79.1%
EPSS 79.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.5%
public exploits
2
Metasploit, Exploit-DB

Summary

The password hashing API in Drupal 7.x before 7.34 and the Secure Password Hashes (aka phpass) module 6.x-2.x before 6.x-2.1 for Drupal allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a crafted request.

Patch / fix

  • drupal drupal 7.34
  • secure_password_hashes_project secure_passwords_hashes 6.x-2.1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2014-9016 updated cvss 4.3

drupal7: Denial of service in password hashing API (SA-CORE-2014-006)

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit auxiliary/dos/http/wordpress_long_password_dos)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

79.06% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.5% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.