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VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2019-6443

An issue was discovered in NTPsec before 1.1.3.

CRITICAL 9.1EPSS 66.9%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 66.9%, higher than 99% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

An issue was discovered in NTPsec before 1.1.3. Because of a bug in ctl_getitem, there is a stack-based buffer over-read in read_sysvars in ntp_control.c in ntpd.

CVSS 3.0
9.1 CRITICALCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
EPSS
66.88% probability · 99th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-125
Affected
ntpsec/ntpsec
Source
cve@mitre.org

References

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