CVE-2014-9251

medium
Published 2014-12-15 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

Zenoss Core through 5 Beta 3 uses a weak algorithm to hash passwords, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to obtain cleartext values via a brute-force attack on hash values in the database, aka ZEN-15413.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

โœš Propose a mitigation on Community โ†’ Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
zenosszenoss_core{"endIncluding":"5.0.0"}
zenosszenoss_core2.4.0
zenosszenoss_core2.4.5
zenosszenoss_core2.5.0
zenosszenoss_core2.5.1
zenosszenoss_core2.5.2
zenosszenoss_core3.0.0
zenosszenoss_core3.0.1
zenosszenoss_core3.0.2
zenosszenoss_core3.0.3
zenosszenoss_core3.1.0
zenosszenoss_core3.2.0
zenosszenoss_core3.2.1
zenosszenoss_core4.2.0
zenosszenoss_core4.2.3
zenosszenoss_core4.2.4
zenosszenoss_core4.2.5
zenosszenoss_core5.0.0

References

CWEs

CWE-255

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.