VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2019-14850

CVSS score3.7 LOW

EPSS probability1.60%

CISA KEVNot currently listed

Published2021-03-18

Last modified2026-06-17

CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

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.

Weakness classification

CWE-406: Insufficient Control of Network Message Volume (Network Amplification)

Primary references

secalert@redhat.com — Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com — Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory