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Vulnerability in nbdkit

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-14851 First seen on SecPulse

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A vulnerability tracked as DEBIAN-CVE-2019-14851 has been found in nbdkit.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade nbdkit to 1.14.2-1 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "nbdkit DEBIAN-CVE-2019-14851" on the vendor's site.

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-14851 (nbdkit)
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / no user interaction
Patched: 1.14.2-1 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.

What is the problem

A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in nbdkit.

Affected scope

Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of nbdkit.

Severity

Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.

How to fix

Update to 1.14.2-1.

Workaround

Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.

Detection

Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'nbdkit' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.

Response actions

Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order

  1. 1
    Identify exposureidentify
    grep -r 'nbdkit' . | grep -v node_modules

    リポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で nbdkit を grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。

  2. 2
    Apply patchpatch
    Upgrade nbdkit to 1.14.2-1

    ステージング環境で 1.14.2-1 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。

  3. 3
    Post-deployment verificationverify
    Confirm patched version is live in production

    パッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed
Debian:12 nbdkit
< 1.14.2-1
1.14.2-1
Debian:13 nbdkit
< 1.14.2-1
1.14.2-1
Debian:14 nbdkit
< 1.14.2-1
1.14.2-1
Original description The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

References

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