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CVE-2015-5195

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-5195 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting NTP before version 4.2.7p112, specifically impacting canonical, debian, fedoraproject, ntp, and redhat products. Rated with a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), this flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to trigger a segmentation fault by sending crafted statistics or filegen configuration commands, leading to service disruption. Despite its high severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
21CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:21:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
22CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:22:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
23CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:23:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
7.48%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
93.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0748 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 51,553 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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 (4)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: ntp-0:4.2.6p5-10.el6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: ntp-0:4.2.6p5-25.el7
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: ntp

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-5195Low

ntp: ntpd crash when processing config commands with statistics type

Aug 25, 2015

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/170926.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169167.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166992.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-0780.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-2583.html
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue Tracking
github.com / ntp-project/ntp/commit/52e977d79a0c4ace997e5c74af429844da2f27be
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
www-01.ibm.com / support/docview.wss
Third Party Advisory
www-01.ibm.com / support/docview.wss
Third Party Advisory
www-01.ibm.com / support/docview.wss
Third Party Advisory
www-01.ibm.com / support/docview.wss
Third Party Advisory
www-01.ibm.com / support/docview.wss
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3388
Third Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2015/08/25/3
Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
securityfocus.com / bid/76474
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2783-1
Third Party Advisory