HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2014-0021

Chrony vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
3.8%
EPSS pct
89th
Exploited
No known
Chrony before 1.29.1 has traffic amplification in cmdmon protocol
Affected vendor
Chrony Project
Affected product
Chrony
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Published
2019-11-15

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.8% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 89% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2014-0021

  • Confirm whether Chrony Project Chrony is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2014-0021.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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