6.4
CVSSv2

CVE-2016-1548

Published: 06/01/2017 Updated: 17/11/2021
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.4 | Impact Score: 4.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.2 | Impact Score: 2.7 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 570
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

An attacker can spoof a packet from a legitimate ntpd server with an origin timestamp that matches the peer->dst timestamp recorded for that server. After making this switch, the client in NTP 4.2.8p4 and previous versions and NTPSec aa48d001683e5b791a743ec9c575aaf7d867a2b0c will reject all future legitimate server responses. It is possible to force the victim client to move time after the mode has been changed. ntpq gives no indication that the mode has been switched.

Vulnerability Trend

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ntp ntp 4.2.8

Vendor Advisories

Several security issues were fixed in NTP ...
It was found that an ntpd client could be forced to change from basic client/server mode to the interleaved symmetric mode A remote attacker could use a spoofed packet that, when processed by an ntpd client, would cause that client to reject all future legitimate server responses, effectively disabling time synchronization on that client (CVE-201 ...
It was found that an ntpd client could be forced to change from basic client/server mode to the interleaved symmetric mode A remote attacker could use a spoofed packet that, when processed by an ntpd client, would cause that client to reject all future legitimate server responses, effectively disabling time synchronization on that client ...

Recent Articles

Time for a patch: six vulns fixed in NTP daemon
The Register • Richard Chirgwin • 28 Apr 2016

What's the time? It's time to get ill. Unless you fix these beastly flaws

Cisco has turned over a bunch of Network Time Protocol daemon (ntpd) vulnerabilities to the Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative. The vulnerabilities, discovered during its ongoing ntpd evaluation, “allow attackers to craft UDP packets to either cause a denial of service condition or to prevent the correct time being set”, Cisco's Talos Security Intelligence and Research Group writes here. First on the list is CVE-2016-1550, described as an NTP authentication potential timing vu...

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