Insufficient Control of Network Message Volume (Network Amplification) Affecting ntp-proto package, versions >=1.2.0 <1.6.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUST-NTPPROTO-12301717
  • published31 Aug 2025
  • disclosed29 Aug 2025
  • creditEric Sesterhenn

Introduced: 29 Aug 2025

NewCVE-2025-58066  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-406  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ntp-proto to version 1.6.2 or higher.

Overview

ntp-proto is a This crate contains packet parsing and algorithm code for ntpd-rs and is not intended as a public in

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insufficient Control of Network Message Volume (Network Amplification) due to handling non-NTS traffic on servers. An attacker can cause a message storm between two affected servers by sending specially crafted network traffic.

Note: This is only exploitable if the server is configured to allow non-NTS traffic and is not running in client-only mode.

References

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1