SOC status:Duty analyst on shift

UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2018-7170

ntpd in ntp 4.2.x before 4.2.8p7 and 4.3.x before 4.3.92 allows authenticated users that know the private symmetric key to create arbitrarily-many ephemeral associations in order to win the clock selection of ntpd and modify a victim's clock via a Sybil…

MEDIUM 5.3EPSS 2.69%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.69%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

ntpd in ntp 4.2.x before 4.2.8p7 and 4.3.x before 4.3.92 allows authenticated users that know the private symmetric key to create arbitrarily-many ephemeral associations in order to win the clock selection of ntpd and modify a victim's clock via a Sybil attack. This issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-1549.

CVSS 3.1
5.3 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS
2.69% probability · 85th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Affected
ntp/ntp · synology/router manager · synology/skynas · synology/virtual diskstation manager · synology/diskstation manager · synology/vs960hd firmware · netapp/hci · netapp/solidfire · hpe/hpux-ntp
Source
cve@mitre.org

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.