CVE-2014-9016

Exp

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.

Published: 2014-11-24 Last update: 2026-05-06 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2014-9016 is rated High Exploit Risk (72.8/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 82.70%, 100th percentile). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +2.91% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2014-9016

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
35415 exploit_db edb 2014-12-01 Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2014-9016

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 79.79% 82.70% +2.91%
2 2026-03-04 81.53% 79.79% -1.74%
3 2026-03-01 — 81.53% —

Full EPSS history (43 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2014-9016

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2014-9016

OS Trackers for CVE-2014-9016

vendor priority summary link
ubuntu medium CVE-2014-9016 medium priority: Ubuntu including 2 source packages (drupal6, drupal7), 46 status rows across 23 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, focal, jammy, kinetic, lucid, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, precise, questing, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): DNE 33, not-affected 6, ignored 3, released 2, needed 1, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9016

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2014-9016

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
drupal drupal >= 7.0, < 7.34 cpe:2.3:a:drupal:drupal:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
secure_password_hashes_project secure_passwords_hashes >= 6.x-2.0, < 6.x-2.1 cpe:2.3:a:secure_password_hashes_project:secure_passwords_hashes:*:*:*:*:*:drupal:*:*
debian debian_linux 7.0 cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2014-9016

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