Vulnerability · Published Jun 24, 2020 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2020-15025
Medium 4.4
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 3.1% (higher than 88% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS 3.1)4.4Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)3.1%top 12.0% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
ntpd in ntp 4.2.8 before 4.2.8p15 and 4.3.x before 4.3.101 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by sending packets, because memory is not freed in situations where a CMAC key is used and associated with a CMAC algorithm in the ntp.keys file.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/SecurityNotice#June_2020_ntp_4_2_8p15_NTP_Relea x_refsource_MISC
- https://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/NtpBug3661 x_refsource_MISC
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/729458 x_refsource_MISC
- openSUSE-SU-2020:0934 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
- openSUSE-SU-2020:1007 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
- GLSA-202007-12 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html x_refsource_MISC
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200702-0002/ x_refsource_CONFIRM