CVE-2014-9034

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.

CVSS v2.0 NVD

5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS

82.70% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 100th percentile

Published

2014-11-25

Updated

2024-08-06

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• c0r3dump3d/wp_drupal_timing_attack13★ · 2014-12-27

ExploitDB entries (2)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/35414
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/35413

Security advisories

• http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/30467
• https://wordpress.org/news/2014/11/wordpress-4-0-1
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:233

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2014-9016