cve/2019/CVE-2019-14850.md

### [CVE-2019-14850](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-14850)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Product&message=nbdkit&color=blue)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Version&message=nbdkit%201.12.7%2C%20nbdkit%201.14.1%2C%20nbdkit%201.15.1%20&color=brightgreen)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Vulnerability&message=CWE-406&color=brightgreen)

### 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.

### POC

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

#### Github
- https://github.com/cttynul/ana