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CVE-2020-13817

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-13817 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting NTP versions before 4.2.8p14 and 4.3.x before 4.3.100, impacting products from vendors like Fujitsu, NetApp, and OpenSUSE. This high-severity flaw (CVSS 7.4) allows a remote, off-path attacker to cause a daemon exit or system time change by predicting transmit timestamps in spoofed packets, provided the victim relies on unauthenticated IPv4 time sources. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 4.2.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ntp:ntp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.3.0, < 4.3.100CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ntp:ntp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.2.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ntp:ntp:4.2.8:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.2.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ntp:ntp:4.2.8:p1:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.2.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ntp:ntp:4.2.8:p1-beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.9MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.07%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
89.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0407 is in the 53rd percentile among its peer group of 8,918 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

oraclepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: ntp-0:4.2.6p5-29.el7_8.2
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2020-13817Moderate

ntp: ntpd using highly predictable transmit timestamps could result in time change or DoS

Mar 3, 2020

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00005.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00044.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
bugs.ntp.org / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202007-12
Third Party Advisory
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20200625-0004
Third Party Advisory
support.ntp.org / bin/view/Main/NtpBug3596
Vendor Advisory
oracle.com / security-alerts/cpujan2022.html
PatchThird Party Advisory