CVE-2019-14850
low-risk
Published 2021-03-18
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.
Do I need to act?
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0.30% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
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CVSS 3.7/10
Low
NETWORK
/ HIGH complexity
Affected Products (5)
Affected Vendors
References (4)
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/ 100
low-risk
Severity
13/34 · Low
Exploitability
1/34 · Minimal
Exposure
12/34 · Low