Bug 1749188 (CVE-2019-14511) - CVE-2019-14511 sphinx: no authentication and listens on 0.0.0.0 leads to information disclosure
Summary: CVE-2019-14511 sphinx: no authentication and listens on 0.0.0.0 leads to info...
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2019-14511
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1749190
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-09-05 05:57 UTC by Dhananjay Arunesh
Modified: 2019-09-05 07:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-09-05 07:07:25 UTC

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Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-09-05 05:57:43 UTC 
A vulnerability was found in 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).

Reference:
https://sphinxsearch.com/blog/
https://blog.wirhabenstil.de/2019/08/19/sphinxsearch-0-0-0-09306-cve-2019-14511/
http://sphinxsearch.com/docs/sphinx3.html#getting-started-on-linux-and-macos
Comment 1 Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-09-05 05:59:03 UTC 
Created sphinx tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1749190]
Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-09-05 07:07:25 UTC 
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.
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