CVE-2015-1799 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the symmetric-key feature of ntpd in NTP versions 3.x and 4.x before 4.2.8p2. An attacker can exploit this by spoofing a peer's IP address and sending specially crafted invalid packets, causing synchronization loss. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium severity, and requires adjacent network access with medium attack complexity to achieve partial integrity and availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 4.2.7p444CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ntp:ntp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
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