Access Restriction Bypass Affecting ntp package, versions [4.2.0,4.2.8)[4.3.0,4.3.92)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.2% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NTP-2382723
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed6 Mar 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 Mar 2018

CVE-2018-7170  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ntp to version 4.2.8, 4.3.92 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass 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.

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