What is CVE-2019-14850?

CVE-2019-14850 is a vulnerability in Nbdkit, classified under CWE-406. Published 2021-03-18.

Is CVE-2019-14850 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Vulnerability in Nbdkit

CVE-2019-14850

A denial of service vulnerability was discovered in nbdkit 1.12.7, 1.14.1 and 1.15.1. An attacker could connect to the nbdkit service and cause it to perform a large amount of work in initializing backend plugins, by simply opening a conne…

EPSS: 0.003 (53.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

N/a Nbdkit — versions nbdkit 1.12.7, nbdkit 1.14.1, nbdkit 1.15.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-406

Public proof-of-concept exploits

cttynul/ana

References

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (x_refsource_MISC)
www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2019-September/msg00084.html (x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-14850?: CVE-2019-14850 is a vulnerability in Nbdkit, classified under CWE-406. Published 2021-03-18.
Is CVE-2019-14850 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.