CVE-2018-7170

Summary

CVECVE-2018-7170
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-03-06 20:29:00 UTC
Updated2020-06-18 14:01:00 UTC
Descriptionntpd in ntp 4.2.x before 4.2.8p7 and 4.3.x before 4.3.92 allows authenticated users that know the private symmetric key to create arbitrarily-many ephemeral associations in order to win the clock selection of ntpd and modify a victim's clock via a Sybil attack. This issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-1549.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Hpe Hpux-ntp All All All All
Application Hpe Hpux-ntp All All All All
Application Netapp Hci - All All All
Application Netapp Hci - All All All
Application Netapp Solidfire - All All All
Application Netapp Solidfire - All All All
Application Ntp Ntp All All All All
Application Ntp Ntp 4.2.8 - All All
Application Ntp Ntp 4.2.8 p1 All All
Application Ntp Ntp 4.2.8 p1-beta1 All All
Application Ntp Ntp 4.2.8 p1-beta2 All All
Application Ntp Ntp 4.2.8 p1-beta3 All All
Application Ntp Ntp 4.2.8 p1-beta4 All All
Application Ntp Ntp 4.2.8 p1-beta5 All All
Application Ntp Ntp 4.2.8 p1-rc1 All All
Application Ntp Ntp 4.2.8 p1-rc2 All All
Application Ntp Ntp 4.2.8 p2 All All
Application Ntp Ntp 4.2.8 p2-rc1 All All
Application Ntp Ntp 4.2.8 p2-rc2 All All
Application Ntp Ntp 4.2.8 p2-rc3 All All
Application Ntp Ntp 4.2.8 p3 All All
Application Ntp Ntp 4.2.8 p3-rc1 All All
Application Ntp Ntp 4.2.8 p3-rc2 All All
Application Ntp Ntp 4.2.8 p3-rc3 All All
Application Ntp Ntp 4.2.8 p4 All All
Application Ntp Ntp 4.2.8 p5 All All
Application Ntp Ntp 4.2.8 p6 All All
Application Ntp Ntp All All All All
Application Ntp Ntp 4.2.8 - All All
Application Ntp Ntp 4.2.8 p1 All All
Application Ntp Ntp 4.2.8 p1-beta1 All All
Application Ntp Ntp 4.2.8 p1-beta2 All All
Application Ntp Ntp 4.2.8 p1-beta3 All All
Application Ntp Ntp 4.2.8 p1-beta4 All All
Application Ntp Ntp 4.2.8 p1-beta5 All All
Application Ntp Ntp 4.2.8 p1-rc1 All All
Application Ntp Ntp 4.2.8 p1-rc2 All All
Application Ntp Ntp 4.2.8 p2 All All
Application Ntp Ntp 4.2.8 p2-rc1 All All
Application Ntp Ntp 4.2.8 p2-rc2 All All
Application Ntp Ntp 4.2.8 p2-rc3 All All
Application Ntp Ntp 4.2.8 p3 All All
Application Ntp Ntp 4.2.8 p3-rc1 All All
Application Ntp Ntp 4.2.8 p3-rc2 All All
Application Ntp Ntp 4.2.8 p3-rc3 All All
Application Ntp Ntp 4.2.8 p4 All All
Application Ntp Ntp 4.2.8 p5 All All
Application Ntp Ntp 4.2.8 p6 All All
Application Synology Diskstation Manager All All All All
Application Synology Diskstation Manager All All All All
Application Synology Router Manager All All All All
Application Synology Router Manager All All All All
Application Synology Skynas All All All All
Application Synology Skynas All All All All
Application Synology Virtual Diskstation Manager All All All All
Application Synology Virtual Diskstation Manager All All All All
Hardware Synology Vs960hd - All All All
Hardware Synology Vs960hd - All All All
Operating System Synology Vs960hd Firmware All All All All
Operating System Synology Vs960hd Firmware All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Document Display | HPE Support Center CONFIRM support.hpe.com Third Party Advisory
support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/NtpBug3415 CONFIRM support.ntp.org Third Party Advisory
NTP: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 201805-12) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org Third Party Advisory
1550214 – (CVE-2018-7170) CVE-2018-7170 ntp: Ephemeral association time spoofing additional protection MISC bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
March 2018 Network Time Protocol Daemon (ntpd) Vulnerabilities in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com Third Party Advisory
Slackware Security Advisory - ntp Updates ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Synology Inc. CONFIRM www.synology.com Third Party Advisory
FreeBSD-SA-18:02 FREEBSD security.FreeBSD.org Third Party Advisory
NTP CVE-2018-7170 Incomplete Fix Remote Security Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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