CVE-2018-7170 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2018-7170

ntpd in ntp 4.2.x before 4.2.8p7 and 4.3.x before 4.3.92...

Vulnerability Description

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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

ntp, router manager, skynas, virtual diskstation manager, diskstation manager, vs960hd firmware, hci, solidfire, hpux-ntp
Vulnerable Versions:
4.2.0, 4.3.0, 4.2.8, 1.1, 0, 5.2

Timeline

Official Publish: March 6th, 2018
Last Modified: August 5th, 2024
Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.