CVE-2016-7431

MEDIUM

NTP - Origin Timestamp Protection Mechanism Bypass via Zero Timestamp

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

NTP before 4.2.8p9 allows remote attackers to bypass the origin timestamp protection mechanism via an origin timestamp of zero. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2015-8138 regression.

References (25)

Core 25
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94454
Release Notes, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://nwtime.org/ntp428p9_release/
Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource third-party-advisory x_refsource_cert-vn
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/633847
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037354
Various Sources x_refsource_confirm
https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa139
Various Sources vendor-advisory x_refsource_freebsd
https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:39.ntp.asc
Issue Tracking, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/NtpBug3102
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/540254/100/0/threaded
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/540254/100/0/threaded
Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00153.html
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3349-1
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/539955/100/0/threaded
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/539955/100/0/threaded
Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource x_refsource_misc
https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-21-159-11

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3
EPSS 0.0871
EPSS Percentile 94.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (1)
ntp/ntp 4.2.8 p8
Published Jan 13, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026