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CVE-2010-0292

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-0292 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the chronyd daemon of Chrony versions prior to 1.23.1 and 1.24-pre1. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this by sending a spoofed cmdmon packet, leading to a continuous exchange of NOHOSTACCESS messages between two daemons, consuming CPU and bandwidth resources. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with low attack complexity and no authentication required, resulting in partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.23-pre1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tuxfamily:chrony:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.18CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tuxfamily:chrony:1.18:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.19CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tuxfamily:chrony:1.19:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.19-1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tuxfamily:chrony:1.19-1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.19.99.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tuxfamily:chrony:1.19.99.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.76%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
75.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0176 is in the 62nd percentile among its peer group of 23,725 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

chrony.tuxfamily.org / News.html
Vendor Advisory
git.tuxfamily.org / chrony/chrony.git
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/38428
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/38480
Vendor Advisory
debian.org / security/2010/dsa-1992
securityfocus.com / bid/38106
Patch