CVE Vulnerability

CVE-2019-14850

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.

2.6 /10

CVSS v2.0 :

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 4.9 / Impact : 2.9

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact PARTIAL

Scope

3.7 /10

CVSS v3.0 : LOW

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.2 / Impact : 1.4

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity HIGH

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact LOW

Scope UNCHANGED

References
Link Resource
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2019-September/msg00084.html Exploit Mailing List
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1757258 Issue Tracking Patch
Configurations

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:a:nbdkit_project:nbdkit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:nbdkit_project:nbdkit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:nbdkit_project:nbdkit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:virtualization:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:advanced_virtualization:*:*:*
Information

Published : 2021-03-18 07:15

Updated : 2021-03-24 06:05

NVD link : CVE-2019-14850

Mitre link : CVE-2019-14850

Products Affected
No products.
CWE
CWE-406

Insufficient Control of Network Message Volume (Network Amplification)