CVE-2019-14850

LOW
3.7
CVSS Score
Published: March 18, 2021 at 06:56 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:19 AM UTC
4 products affected across 2 vendorsEnterprise LinuxEnterprise Linux ServerVirtualization

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Severity
LOW3.7
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%

Description

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 1.12.71.14.0 ≤ v < 1.14.11.15.0 ≤ v < 1.15.11.12.71.14.11.15.1
Affected range stops below 1.12.7, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 1.14.1, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 1.15.1, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

References (2)

x_refsource_MISCIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1757258
x_refsource_MISCExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2019-September/msg00084.html

CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
HIGH
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
LOW
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-406

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