Medium severity · published Mar 18, 2021
CVE-2019-14851
A denial of service vulnerability was discovered in nbdkit
6.5
CVSS
1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A denial of service vulnerability was discovered in nbdkit. A client issuing a certain sequence of commands could possibly trigger an assertion failure, causing nbdkit to exit. This issue only affected nbdkit versions 1.12.7, 1.14.1, and 1.15.1.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.0% · higher than 62% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
NB
Nbdkit · Nbdkit Project
before 1.12.7; 1.14.0 before 1.14.1; 1.15.0 before 1.15.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14851
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-14851
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1757259
Mailing List
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2019-September/msg00272.html
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