CVE-2019-14850 (GCVE-0-2019-14850)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-03-18 18:56 – Updated: 2024-08-05 00:26
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Summary
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.
Severity
3.7 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a nbdkit Affected: nbdkit 1.12.7, nbdkit 1.14.1, nbdkit 1.15.1
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