CVE-2019-14850

CVE Details

Release Date:

2021-03-18

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.

See more information about CVE-2019-14850 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v3.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	3.7	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	High
Privileges Required:	None	User Interaction:	None
Scope:	Unchanged	Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None	Availability Impact:	Low

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 7 (nbdkit)	ELSA-2020-1167	2020-04-06

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