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Misfortune Cookie in AllegroSoft RomPager

IdentifiersCVE-2014-9222CWE-119

CVE-2014-9222, known as Misfortune Cookie, affects AllegroSoft RomPager 4.34 and earlier, including deployments in Huawei Home Gateway products and other vendors' embedded devices. The vulnerability is triggered by a crafted HTTP cookie that causes memory corruption in the RomPager web server, allowing a remote attacker to gain elevated privileges on the affected device. The provided content identifies the issue as a remotely exploitable flaw in RomPager and notes its presence in embedded networking products such as home gateways and session border controllers.

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ANALYST BRIEF

Impact, mitigation & remediation

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Impact

What an attacker gets, and what they’ve been doing with it.

Successful exploitation can allow a remote attacker to gain privileges on the affected device. In embedded gateway and network appliance contexts, this can result in unauthorized administrative control of the device, compromise of management functions, and potential follow-on access within the surrounding network environment.

Mitigation

If you can’t patch tonight, do this now.

If immediate patching is not possible, restrict network exposure of the embedded web management interface, especially from untrusted networks and the public Internet. Limit administrative access via firewalling, management-plane segmentation, and ACLs; disable unnecessary remote management services where feasible; and monitor for suspicious HTTP requests involving malformed or unexpected cookie values. Because exploitation is remote via the web interface, reducing HTTP/HTTPS management exposure is the primary mitigation.

Remediation

Patch, then assume compromise.

Upgrade or replace affected firmware and products that include AllegroSoft RomPager 4.34 or earlier with vendor-provided fixed versions. The provided content specifically notes that certain AudioCodes Session Border Controllers were patched in 2024 and that firmware sbc-F7.40A.500.781 was reported as not vulnerable, while sbc-F7.40A.005.619 was vulnerable. For other affected vendors, apply the relevant vendor firmware updates that remove or update the vulnerable RomPager component.
PUBLIC EXPLOITS

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VendorProductType
AllegrosoftRompagerapplication

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ACTIVITY FEED

Recent activity

4 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.

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Threat actor evidence

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Associated malware1

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Detection signatures

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Vendor-by-vendor mapping

Cross-references every affected SKU, including bundled OEM variants.

Social activity3

Community discussion across Reddit, Mastodon, and other social sources.

EXTERNAL REFERENCES
MITRE CVE
cve.org · CVE-2014-9222
NVD
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9222
MITRE CWE · CWE-119
cwe.mitre.org
Vendor Advisory
huawei.com/en/security/psirt/security-bulletins/security-advisories/hw-407666.htm
Third Party Advisory
mis.fortunecook.ie
Third Party Advisory
seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/87
Third Party Advisory
kb.cert.org/vuls/id/561444
Third Party Advisory
allegrosoft.com/allegro-software-urges-manufacturers-to-maintain-firmware-for-highest-level-of-embedded-device-security/news-press.html
securityfocus.com
securityfocus.com/bid/105173