CVE-2018-7170

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

Description

ntpd 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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-7170

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-7170.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201803-11

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed4.2.8.p11-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbullseyefixed1:4.2.8p11+dfsg-1
debian debianbookwormfixed0
debian debianforkyfixed0
debian debiansidfixed0
debian debiantrixiefixed0

References

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