CVE-2019-14511
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).
02 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).
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.09% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 81.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2019-08-22 12:26Z7 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 00:19Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2019-08-01
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-306Missing Authentication for Critical FunctionBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- d8376f29b9ee505bcb9e7b54ae84f58fa570757a58239f8c03bf6ed83f554143
05 Affected products
06 References
- sphinxsearch.comhttp://sphinxsearch.com/docs/sphinx3.html#getting-started-on-linux-and-macos
- sphinxsearch.comhttps://sphinxsearch.com/blog/
- blog.wirhabenstil.dehttps://blog.wirhabenstil.de/2019/08/19/sphinxsearch-0-0-0-09306-cve-2019-14511/
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2019-9231a18768https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YSLPW44RWIGHU5AG3P4U2HPSD3UBG4GJ/
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2019-bdadf4c6f5https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XD25JJJVM7FFXAO2L3ZG2KXQ6UMFBIA4/
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2019-1f604fd2f2https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3FPPNZZMWTZOMFGFETMET6YKIH2DQDKS/
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- sphinxsearch Fixed in 2.2.11-4
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- sphinxsearch Fixed in 2.2.11-4
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- sphinxsearch Fixed in 2.2.11-4
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- sphinxsearch No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- sphinxsearch No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- sphinxsearch No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
- sphinxsearch No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
- sphinxsearch No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 25.10
- sphinxsearch No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
- sphinxsearch No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 26.10
- sphinxsearch No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.