CVE-2014-9750

Ntp vulnerability

CVSS

5.8

EPSS

6.1%

EPSS pct

93th

Exploited

No known

ntp_crypto.c in ntpd in NTP 4.x before 4.2.8p1, when Autokey Authentication is enabled, allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory or cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a packet containing an extension field with an invalid value for the length of its value field.

Affected vendor

Ntp

Affected product

Ntp

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation

Published

2015-10-06

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 6.1% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 93% of all scored CVEs.

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