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CVE-2019-14511

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-08-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-306

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 products

• Sphinxsearch Sphinx: 3.1.1

References

• http://sphinxsearch.com/docs/sphinx3.html#getting-started-on-linux-and-macos
• https://blog.wirhabenstil.de/2019/08/19/sphinxsearch-0-0-0-09306-cve-2019-14511/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3FPPNZZMWTZOMFGFETMET6YKIH2DQDKS/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XD25JJJVM7FFXAO2L3ZG2KXQ6UMFBIA4/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YSLPW44RWIGHU5AG3P4U2HPSD3UBG4GJ/
• https://sphinxsearch.com/blog/
• http://sphinxsearch.com/docs/sphinx3.html#getting-started-on-linux-and-macos
• https://blog.wirhabenstil.de/2019/08/19/sphinxsearch-0-0-0-09306-cve-2019-14511/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3FPPNZZMWTZOMFGFETMET6YKIH2DQDKS/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XD25JJJVM7FFXAO2L3ZG2KXQ6UMFBIA4/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YSLPW44RWIGHU5AG3P4U2HPSD3UBG4GJ/
• https://sphinxsearch.com/blog/

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