CVE-2019-14850

low

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.

References

https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2019-September/msg00084.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1757258

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-03-18

Updated: 2021-03-24

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Severity: Low