CVE-2014-9037 Auth bypass in n/a

What is CVE-2014-9037?

CVE-2014-9037 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 25 Nov 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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 might allow remote attackers to obtain access to an account idle since 2008 by leveraging an improper PHP dynamic type comparison for an MD5 hash.

Weakness: CWE-310

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-9037?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Mageia Project Mageia, Wordpress Wordpress.

How do I fix CVE-2014-9037?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.

Is CVE-2014-9037 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-9037 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9037, GHSA-f6m5-cxjc-8qwq.