Vulnerability in Nbdkit Project
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 connection to the service. This vulnerability could cause resource consumption and degradation of service in nbdkit, depending on the plugins configured on the server-side.
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CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 3.7 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.016 (75.4th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 75th percentile — 75.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.016 · newest: 0.016 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Nbdkit Project
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux — versions 8.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server — versions 7.0
- Red Hat Virtualization — versions 4.0
- Nbdkit — versions nbdkit 1.12.7, nbdkit 1.14.1, nbdkit 1.15.1
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
- www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2019-September/msg00084.html (Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2019-14850?
- CVE-2019-14850 is a low-severity vulnerability in Nbdkit Project, classified under CWE-406. CVSS score: 3.7/10. Published 2021-03-18.
- How severe is CVE-2019-14850?
- Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.7 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2019-14850 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.