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CVE-2019-14511 (GCVE-0-2019-14511)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-08-22 12:26 – Updated: 2024-08-05 00:19
VLAI
Summary
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).
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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