{"id":"CVE-2019-14511","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2019-14511","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T20:23:38.295Z","title":"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).","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).","published":"2019-08-22T13:15:13.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:18:34.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-306"],"affected":["sphinxsearch/sphinx"],"epss":{"score":0.02099,"percentile":0.81602,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.10%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://sphinxsearch.com/docs/sphinx3.html#getting-started-on-linux-and-macos","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://blog.wirhabenstil.de/2019/08/19/sphinxsearch-0-0-0-09306-cve-2019-14511/","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3FPPNZZMWTZOMFGFETMET6YKIH2DQDKS/","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XD25JJJVM7FFXAO2L3ZG2KXQ6UMFBIA4/","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YSLPW44RWIGHU5AG3P4U2HPSD3UBG4GJ/","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://sphinxsearch.com/blog/","tags":["Release Notes"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://sphinxsearch.com/docs/sphinx3.html#getting-started-on-linux-and-macos","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://blog.wirhabenstil.de/2019/08/19/sphinxsearch-0-0-0-09306-cve-2019-14511/","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3FPPNZZMWTZOMFGFETMET6YKIH2DQDKS/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XD25JJJVM7FFXAO2L3ZG2KXQ6UMFBIA4/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YSLPW44RWIGHU5AG3P4U2HPSD3UBG4GJ/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://sphinxsearch.com/blog/","tags":["Release Notes"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14511","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}