CVE-2019-14511

Published: Aug 22, 2019Modified: Jun 17, 2026

7.5

Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 3.6

Source: NVD

Description

Sphinx Technologies Sphinx 3.1.1 by default has no authentication and listens on 0.0.0.0, making it exposed to the internet (unless filtered by a firewall or reconfigured to listen to 127.0.0.1 only).

Affected (1)

Products: Sphinxsearch: Sphinx

Sphinxsearch

1 product

Sphinx

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Sphinxsearch Sphinx	Version 3.1.1

Related CWEs

CWE-306

Missing Authentication for Critical Function

The product does not perform any authentication for functionality that requires a provable user identity or consumes a significant amount of resources.

References (12)

http://sphinxsearch.com/docs/sphinx3.html#getting-started-on-linux-and-macos

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

https://blog.wirhabenstil.de/2019/08/19/sphinxsearch-0-0-0-09306-cve-2019-14511/

Source: cve@mitre.org

ExploitThird Party Advisory

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3FPPNZZMWTZOMFGFETMET6YKIH2DQDKS/

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XD25JJJVM7FFXAO2L3ZG2KXQ6UMFBIA4/

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YSLPW44RWIGHU5AG3P4U2HPSD3UBG4GJ/

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://sphinxsearch.com/blog/

Source: cve@mitre.org

Release Notes

http://sphinxsearch.com/docs/sphinx3.html#getting-started-on-linux-and-macos