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CVE-2014-9426

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-9426 describes a memory corruption vulnerability in the apprentice_load function within the Fileinfo component of PHP versions through 5.6.4. This flaw, potentially leading to a denial of service or other unspecified impacts, stems from an attempt to free a stack-based character array. Rated with a CVSS score of 7.3 (High), it has a low attack complexity and no user interaction required, though the vendor disputes the reachability of the vulnerable free operation. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 5.6.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.14%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0214 is in the 65th percentile among its peer group of 51,553 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-9426

php: denial of service in libmagic/apprentice.c

Dec 28, 2014

References

git.php.net
git.php.net
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00079.html
bugs.php.net / bug.php
Vendor Advisory