CVE-2019-14850

Public Exploit

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

Link	Tags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1757258	issue tracking third party advisory patch
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2019-September/msg00084.html	mailing list exploit third party advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2019-14850?: CVE-2019-14850 has been scored as a low severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2019-14850?: To fix CVE-2019-14850, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2019-14850 being actively exploited in the wild?: It is possible that CVE-2019-14850 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~0% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
What software or system is affected by CVE-2019-14850?: CVE-2019-14850 affects n/a nbdkit.

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Description

Category

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

References

Frequently Asked Questions