CVE-2014-9721
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.3
Description
libzmq before 4.0.6 and 4.1.x before 4.1.1 allows remote attackers to conduct downgrade attacks and bypass ZMTP v3 protocol security mechanisms via a ZMTP v2 or earlier header.
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 — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 4.0.5+dfsg-3 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 4.0.5+dfsg-3 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 4.0.5+dfsg-3 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 4.0.5+dfsg-3 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 4.0.5+dfsg-3 |
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-9721.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/159176.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-06/msg00018.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3255
- https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq/issues/1273
- https://github.com/zeromq/zeromq4-x/commit/b6e3e0f601e2c1ec1f3aac880ed6a3fe63043e51
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9721
CWEs
CWE-20
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.