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CVE-2014-9016

77
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-9016 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Drupal 7.x before 7.34 and the Secure Password Hashes module 6.x-2.x before 6.x-2.1. Attackers can exploit this flaw by sending a crafted request to the password hashing API, leading to excessive CPU and memory consumption. Rated with a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with no authentication required, resulting in a partial denial of service. While not on the CISA KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available, including a Metasploit module and an ExploitDB entry, indicating a high potential for exploitation.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 7.0, < 7.34CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:drupal:drupal:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 6.x-2.0, < 6.x-2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:secure_password_hashes_project:secure_passwords_hashes:*:*:*:*:*:drupal:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
82.23%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: WordPress Long Password DoS · Nov 20, 2014
ExploitDB: EDB-35415 · Dec 1, 2014
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.8223 is in the 100th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

secunia.com / advisories/59164
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/59814
Third Party Advisory
drupal.org / node/2378367
PatchVendor Advisory
drupal.org / node/2378375
PatchVendor Advisory
drupal.org / SA-CORE-2014-006
Vendor Advisory
debian.org / security/2014/dsa-3075
Third Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/11/20/21
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/11/20/3
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/11/21/1
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory