CVE-2015-7973

medium
Published 2017-01-30 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
VIR risk
6.5

Description

NTP before 4.2.8p6 and 4.3.x before 4.3.90, when configured in broadcast mode, allows man-in-the-middle attackers to conduct replay attacks by sniffing the network.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbullseyefixed1:4.2.8p7+dfsg-1
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu16.04affected
freebsd freebsdaffected10.1
freebsd freebsd9.3affected
freebsd freebsd10.1affected
freebsd freebsd10.2affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
ntpntp{"endExcluding":"4.2.8"}4.2.8
ntpntp4.2.8
netappclustered_data_ontap-
netapponcommand_balance-

References

CWEs

CWE-254

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Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.