Directory Traversal Affecting ntp package, versions [4.2.0,4.2.8)[4.3.0,4.3.77)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.31% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NTP-2382728
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed28 Jan 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 28 Jan 2020

CVE-2015-7851  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ntp to version 4.2.8, 4.3.77 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal. Directory traversal vulnerability in the save_config function in ntpd in ntp_control.c in NTP before 4.2.8p4, when used on systems that do not use '' or '/' characters for directory separation such as OpenVMS, allows remote authenticated users to overwrite arbitrary files.

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