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CVE-2014-9294

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-9294 describes a weak random number generator (RNG) seed in the ntp-keygen utility within NTP before version 4.2.7p230, making it vulnerable to brute-force attacks against cryptographic protections. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is highly severe, allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to compromise confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity. Despite its high FAUCET Risk Score of 94/100 and above-average EPSS, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 4.2.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ntp:ntp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
12.54%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1254 is in the 94th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 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 (5)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: ntp-0:4.2.2p1-18.el5_11
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: ntp-0:4.2.6p5-2.el6_6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Extended Update SupportFixed in: ntp-0:4.2.6p5-2.el6_5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: ntp-0:4.2.6p5-19.el7_0
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: ntp

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-9294Moderate

ntp: ntp-keygen uses weak random number generator and seed when generating MD5 keys

Dec 19, 2014

References

advisories.mageia.org / MGASA-2014-0541.html
bk1.ntp.org / ntp-dev/util/ntp-keygen.c
Exploit
bugs.ntp.org / show_bug.cgi
marc.info
marc.info
marc.info
marc.info
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-2025.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-0104.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/62209
h20564.www2.hpe.com / portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay
h20564.www2.hpe.com / portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay
kc.mcafee.com / corporate/index
tools.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20141222-ntpd
support.ntp.org / bin/view/Main/SecurityNotice
Vendor Advisory
arista.com / en/support/advisories-notices/security-advisories/1047-security-advisory-8
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/852879
Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
mandriva.com / security/advisories
oracle.com / technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2016-2881722.html
securityfocus.com / bid/71762