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high 7.5

CVE-2014-9970 json

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Apache Jasypt

published 2017-05-21 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-r5c2-rxh2-f5h2 , EUVD-2022-5095

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.4%
EPSS 2.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 83%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

jasypt before 1.9.2 allows a timing attack against the password hash comparison.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.jasypt:jasypt 1.9.2
  • jasypt Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.9.2-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9970

  • eap7-jboss-ec2-eap jboss enterprise application platform 7 7.0.8-1.GA_redhat_1.ep7.el6
  • eap7-jboss-ec2-eap jboss enterprise application platform 7 7.0.8-1.GA_redhat_1.ep7.el7
  • eap7-jboss-ec2-eap-samples jboss enterprise application platform 7 7.0.8-1.GA_redhat_1.ep7.el6
  • eap7-jboss-ec2-eap-samples jboss enterprise application platform 7 7.0.8-1.GA_redhat_1.ep7.el7
  • eap7-jasypt jboss enterprise application platform 7 1.9.2-2.redhat_1.1.ep7.el7
  • eap7-wildfly jboss enterprise application platform 7 7.0.8-4.GA_redhat_1.1.ep7.el7
  • eap7-undertow jboss enterprise application platform 7 1.3.31-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep7.el7
  • eap7-bouncycastle jboss enterprise application platform 7 1.56.0-3.redhat_2.2.ep7.el7

red hat advisories RHSA-2017:2811RHSA-2017:2808RHSA-2017:2809RHSA-2017:3141RHSA-2017:2905RHSA-2017:2904

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-2014-9970 updated cvss 5.1

jasypt: Vulnerable to timing attack against the password hash comparison

  • Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5 jasypt
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7 jasypt
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 jasypt
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2 jasypt
    under investigation
  • Red Hat Data Grid 7.1.2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:0294
  • Red Hat JBoss BPMS 6.4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:2546
  • Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6.4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:2547
  • Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:2810
show 7 more
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 for RHEL 6 Server eap7-jasypt 1.9.2-2.redhat_1.1.ep7.el6, eap7-wildfly 7.0.8-4.GA_redhat_1.1.ep7.el6, eap7-artemis-native 1.1.0-13.redhat_4.ep7.el6, eap7-bouncycastle 1.56.0-3.redhat_2.2.ep7.el6, eap7-jboss-ec2-eap 7.0.8-1.GA_redhat_1.ep7.el6, eap7-undertow 1.3.31-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep7.el6, +30 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:2809
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 for RHEL 7 Server eap7-jasypt 1.9.2-2.redhat_1.1.ep7.el7, eap7-wildfly 7.0.8-4.GA_redhat_1.1.ep7.el7, eap7-artemis-native 1.1.0-13.redhat_4.ep7.el7, eap7-bouncycastle 1.56.0-3.redhat_2.2.ep7.el7, eap7-jboss-ec2-eap 7.0.8-1.GA_redhat_1.ep7.el7, eap7-undertow 1.3.31-1.Final_redhat_1.1.ep7.el7, +30 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:2811
  • Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:2906
  • Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.1 for RHEL 6 Server rh-sso7-keycloak 2.5.14-1.Final_redhat_1.1.jbcs.el6, rh-sso7-keycloak-server 2.5.14-1.Final_redhat_1.1.jbcs.el6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:2904
  • Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.1 for RHEL 7 Server rh-sso7-keycloak 2.5.14-1.Final_redhat_1.1.jbcs.el7, rh-sso7-keycloak-server 2.5.14-1.Final_redhat_1.1.jbcs.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:2905
  • Red Hat Virtualization 4 Hypervisor for RHEL 7 rhvm-appliance 4.1.20171102.0-1.el7 Red Hat Virtualization 4 Management Agent for RHEL 7 Hosts rhvm-appliance 4.1.20171102.0-1.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:3141
  • Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6 jasypt Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 jasypt
    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

Exploit prediction

2.37% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 83% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.jasypt:jasypt
<1.9.2
1.9.2

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

Sources

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