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CVE-2010-0293

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-0293 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the client logging functionality of chronyd in Chrony versions prior to 1.23.1. This flaw allows remote attackers to exhaust system memory by sending spoofed NTP or cmdmon packets, as the software fails to restrict the amount of memory allocated for client information. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, leading to a 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
2.70%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0270 is in the 77th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 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