CVE-2014-9222
AllegroSoft RomPager 4.34 and earlier, as used in Huawei Home Gateway products and other vendors and products, allows remote attackers to…
- 10.0HighCVSS base score
- 74.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.5% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
AllegroSoft RomPager 4.34 and earlier, as used in Huawei Home Gateway products and other vendors and products, allows remote attackers to gain privileges via a crafted cookie that triggers memory corruption, aka the "Misfortune Cookie" vulnerability.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 2 Metasploit modules for it.
Show the exploits2
Metasploit modules2 modules
- Allegro Software RomPager 'Misfortune Cookie' (CVE-2014-9222) Authentication Bypass (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
auxiliary/admin/http/allegro_rompager_auth_bypassRank normaldisclosed 17 Dec 2014
- Allegro Software RomPager 'Misfortune Cookie' (CVE-2014-9222) Scanner (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
auxiliary/scanner/http/allegro_rompager_misfortune_cookieRank normaldisclosed 17 Dec 2014
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 22 days later
· 22 days later
Published
- 10 years later
· 10 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 74.0% · top 0.5% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- http://mis.fortunecook.ie/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.huawei.com/en/security/psirt/security-bulletins/security-advisories/hw-407666.htm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 105173 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://www.allegrosoft.com/allegro-software-urges-manufacturers-to-maintain-firmware-for-highest-level-of-embedded-device-security/news-press.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 20141219 The Misfortune Cookie Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- VU#561444 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2014-9047 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2014-9222)Record last updated .