CVE-2019-14850
3.7
LOW
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 1.6%
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.
How to fix CVE-2019-14850
To remediate CVE-2019-14850, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 1.14.1-1 or later
Is CVE-2019-14850 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.6%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 1.14.1-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | LOW3.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |