CVE-2020-13817 Information

Description

ntpd in ntp before 4.2.8p14 and 4.3.x before 4.3.100 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon exit or system time change) by predicting transmit timestamps for use in spoofed packets. The victim must be relying on unauthenticated IPv4 time sources. There must be an off-path attacker who can query time from the victim’s ntpd instance.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00005.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00044.html http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/NtpBug3596 https://bugs.ntp.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3596 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-12 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200625-0004/

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.4