CVE-2019-14850

LOW

nbdkit 1.12.7 1.14.1 1.15.1 - Denial of Service via Backend Plugin Initialization

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1757258
Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2019-September/msg00084.html

Scores

CVSS v3 3.7
EPSS 0.0030
EPSS Percentile 53.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Details

CWE
CWE-406
Status published
Products (4)
nbdkit_project/nbdkit < 1.12.7
redhat/enterprise_linux 8.0 (2 CPE variants)
redhat/enterprise_linux_server 7.0
redhat/virtualization 4.0
Published Mar 18, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026