CVE-2016-1550

An exploitable vulnerability exists in the message authentication functionality of libntp in ntp 4.2.8p4 and NTPSec a5fb34b9cc89b92a8fef2f459004865c93bb7f92

published January 6, 2017

CVSS
—
EPSS
4%
Percentile
89.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

An exploitable vulnerability exists in the message authentication functionality of libntp in ntp 4.2.8p4 and NTPSec a5fb34b9cc89b92a8fef2f459004865c93bb7f92. An attacker can send a series of crafted messages to attempt to recover the message digest key.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.03604 · 89.3th percentile
Published
2017-01-06T21:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 06 JAN 21:00Z
    An exploitable vulnerability exists in the message authentication functionality of libntp in ntp 4.2.8p4 and NTPSec a5fb34b9cc89b92a8fef2f459004865c93bb7f92
    cvelistv5