CVE-2014-9222, dubbed "Misfortune Cookie," is a critical vulnerability affecting AllegroSoft RomPager 4.34 and earlier, widely used in Huawei Home Gateway products and other vendor devices. It allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to gain full control of affected devices by sending a specially crafted cookie that triggers memory corruption. With a CVSS score of 10.0, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, public Metasploit modules exist for both scanning and exploitation, and it has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, indicating its past and potential for active exploitation.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 4.07CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:allegrosoft:rompager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.