CVE-2014-9034

Description

wp-includes/class-phpass.php in WordPress before 3.7.5, 3.8.x before 3.8.5, 3.9.x before 3.9.3, and 4.x before 4.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long password that is improperly handled during hashing, a similar issue to CVE-2014-9016.

References

https://wordpress.org/news/2014/11/wordpress-4-0-1/

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031243

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:233

http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3085

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/25/12

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/30467

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0493.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3