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CVE-2014-6258

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-6258 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Zenoss Core through 5 Beta 3, where an unspecified endpoint can be exploited to cause high CPU consumption through arbitrary regular-expression match attempts. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, leading to a partial denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available Metasploit or Nuclei exploits. Despite limited community discussion and media coverage, SecurityWeek did report on numerous Zenoss Core vulnerabilities, including this one.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 5.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:zenoss:zenoss_core:*:beta_3:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:zenoss:zenoss_core:2.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.4.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:zenoss:zenoss_core:2.4.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:zenoss:zenoss_core:2.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:zenoss:zenoss_core:2.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.46%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
70.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0146 is in the 53rd percentile among its peer group of 23,725 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

docs.google.com / spreadsheets/d/1dHAc4PxUbs-4Dxzm1wSCE0sMz5UCMY6SW3PlMHSyuuQ/edit
Vendor Advisory
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/449452
Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource