Vulnerability CVE-2014-9034
Published: 2014-11-25   Modified: 2014-11-26

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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
WordPress <= v4.0 Denial of Service Exploit
john
02.12.2014

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Wordpress -> Wordpress 

 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
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