CVE-2016-1548

N/A
Published: January 6, 2017 at 09:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:42 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorNTP

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 4%

Description

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 earlier 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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

CVSS

Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
PARTIAL
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-19

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