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CVE-2019-14851
A denial of service vulnerability was discovered in nbdkit. A client issuing a certain sequence of commands could possibly trigger an…
Medium6.5EPSS 0.99%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
A denial of service vulnerability was discovered in nbdkit. A client issuing a certain sequence of commands could possibly trigger an assertion failure, causing nbdkit to exit. This issue only affected nbdkit versions 1.12.7, 1.14.1, and 1.15.1.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 20 months later
· 20 months later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.99% · top 37% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
Affected products
nbdkit
- affected nbdkit 1.12.8, nbdkit 1.14.2, nbdkit 1.15.2
References (2)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1757259 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2019-September/msg00272.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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