CVE-2014-9323

Exp

The xdr_status_vector function in Firebird before 2.1.7 and 2.5.x before 2.5.3 SU1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference, segmentation fault, and crash) via an op_response action with a non-empty status.

Published: 2014-12-16 Last update: 2026-05-06 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2014-9323 is rated High Exploit Risk (63/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.48%). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2014-9323

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2014-9323

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 2026-03-14 1.73% 1.48% -0.25%
2 2025-04-08 1.55% 1.73% +0.18%
3 2025-03-30 1.55%

Full EPSS history (11 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2014-9323

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-2014-9323

OS Trackers for CVE-2014-9323

vendor priority summary link
ubuntu medium CVE-2014-9323 medium priority: Ubuntu including 3 source packages (firebird2.0, firebird2.1, firebird2.5), 39 status rows across 13 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, lucid, precise, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): DNE 26, ignored 6, not-affected 4, released 3. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9323

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2014-9323

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
firebirdsql firebird < 2.1.7 cpe:2.3:a:firebirdsql:firebird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
firebirdsql firebird >= 2.5, <= 2.5.3 cpe:2.3:a:firebirdsql:firebird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
opensuse evergreen 11.4 cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:evergreen:11.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
debian debian_linux 7.0 cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
debian debian_linux 8.0 cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
canonical ubuntu_linux 14.04 cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*

References for CVE-2014-9323

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