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CVE-2014-9251

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-9251 describes a weak password hashing algorithm in Zenoss Core through version 5 Beta 3, making it vulnerable to brute-force attacks on database-stored hash values. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, as it allows unauthenticated attackers to potentially obtain cleartext passwords with low attack complexity. While there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or KEV entry, the vulnerability has received some community discussion and media coverage.

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:P/I:N/A:N

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.29%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
67.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0129 is in the 47th percentile among its peer group of 23,705 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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