CVE-2014-9016

medium

Published 2014-11-24 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.0

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-35415 dos php

Javer Nieto & Andres Rojas · 2014-12-01

Drupal < 7.34 - Denial of Service

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

auxiliary_dos/http/wordpress_long_password_dos rank 300

WordPress Long Password DoS

Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

OS impact

Debian Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
7.0	Affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
drupal	drupal	`{"startIncluding":"7.0","endExcluding":"7.34"}`	`7.34`
secure_password_hashes_project	secure_passwords_hashes	`{"startIncluding":"6.x-2.0","endExcluding":"6.x-2.1"}`	`6.x-2.1`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.