VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2016-1549
A malicious authenticated peer can create arbitrarily-many ephemeral associations in order to win the clock selection algorithm in ntpd in NTP 4.2.8p4 and earlier and NTPsec 3e160db8dc248a0bcb053b56a80167dc742d2b74 and…
MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 3.15%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (3.15%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
A malicious authenticated peer can create arbitrarily-many ephemeral associations in order to win the clock selection algorithm in ntpd in NTP 4.2.8p4 and earlier and NTPsec 3e160db8dc248a0bcb053b56a80167dc742d2b74 and a5fb34b9cc89b92a8fef2f459004865c93bb7f92 and modify a victim's clock.
- CVSS 3.0
- 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- EPSS
- 3.15% probability · 87th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-19
- Affected
- ntp/ntp
- Source
- cret@cert.org
References
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/88200
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035705
- http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0083/Mitigation, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:16.ntp.asc
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-15
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20171004-0002/
- https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbux03962en_us
- https://www.synology.com/support/security/Synology_SA_18_13
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/88200
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035705
- http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0083/Mitigation, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:16.ntp.asc
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-15
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20171004-0002/
- https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbux03962en_us
- https://www.synology.com/support/security/Synology_SA_18_13
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.