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CVE-2014-9621

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-9621 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the ELF parser of file_project file versions 5.16 through 5.21, which can be triggered by remote attackers providing a long string. Rated with a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over a network with low complexity, leading to a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.16CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:file_project:file:5.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.17CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:file_project:file:5.17:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.18CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:file_project:file:5.18:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.19CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:file_project:file:5.19:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.20CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:file_project:file:5.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.98%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0298 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 23,705 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

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-9621Low

file: limit string printing to 100 chars

Jan 3, 2015

References

advisories.mageia.org / MGASA-2015-0040.html
mx.gw.com / pipermail/file/2014/001654.html
mx.gw.com / pipermail/file/2015/001660.html
Vendor Advisory
github.com / file/file/commit/65437cee25199dbd385fb35901bc0011e164276c
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201503-08
usn.ubuntu.com / 3686-1
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2015/01/17/9