CVE-2019-14851: Nbdkit Project Nbdkit

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

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)

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