NetworkTimeFoundation NTP CVE-2020-13817 Weak Encryption Vulnerability

Description

A high-performance ntpd instance that gets its time from unauthenticated IPv4 time sources may be vulnerable to an off-path attacker who can query time from the victim's ntpd instance. The attacker must be able to send and the victim must be able to receive and process a large number of packets with the spoofed IPv4 address of the upstream server. After 8 or more successful attacks in a row, the attacker can either modify the victim's clock by a limited amount or cause ntpd to exit. This attack is most effective in cases where an unusually short poll interval is expressly configured on the victim's ntpd.

Affected Applications

NTP

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