CVE-2019-14850 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Reference

https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2019-September/msg00084.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1757258

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

LOW

Base Severity

3.7