CVE-2019-14850: Nbdkit Project Nbdkit

Low severity, CVSS 3.7. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Nbdkit Project Nbdkit: before 1.12.7 (fixed in 1.12.7); from 1.14.0, before 1.14.1 (fixed in 1.14.1); from 1.15.0, before 1.15.1 (fixed in 1.15.1)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 8.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Virtualization: version 4.0 only

Published 2021-03-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.