CVE-2014-9034 (GCVE-0-2014-9034)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-11-25 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 13:33
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Summary
wp-includes/class-phpass.php in WordPress before 3.7.5, 3.8.x before 3.8.5, 3.9.x before 3.9.3, and 4.x before 4.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long password that is improperly handled during hashing, a similar issue to CVE-2014-9016.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
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References
Date Public
2014-11-20 00:00
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            "url": "https://wordpress.org/news/2014/11/wordpress-4-0-1/"
          }
        ],
        "sourceIdentifier": "cve@mitre.org",
        "vulnStatus": "Modified",
        "weaknesses": [
          {
            "description": [
              {
                "lang": "en",
                "value": "CWE-19"
              }
            ],
            "source": "nvd@nist.gov",
            "type": "Primary"
          }
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      }
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    "redhat_vex": {
      "current_release_date": "2025-11-21T12:24:28+00:00",
      "cve": "CVE-2014-9034",
      "id": "CVE-2014-9034",
      "initial_release_date": "2014-11-20T00:00:00+00:00",
      "product_status:known_not_affected": "1",
      "source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
      "status": "final",
      "title": "wordpress: security flaws fixed in the 4.0.1 release",
      "url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2014/cve-2014-9034.json",
      "version": "3"
    }
  }
}



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