Medium severity · published Jan 16, 2019
CVE-2019-6445
An issue was discovered in NTPsec before 1.1.3
6.5
CVSS
14.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in NTPsec before 1.1.3. An authenticated attacker can cause a NULL pointer dereference and ntpd crash in ntp_control.c, related to ctl_getitem.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)14.7% · higher than 97% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
NT
Ntpsec · Ntpsec
before 1.1.3 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-6445
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-6445
Exploit
https://dumpco.re/blog/ntpsec-bugs
Exploit
https://dumpco.re/bugs/ntpsec-authed-npe
Release Notes
https://github.com/ntpsec/ntpsec/blob/NTPsec_1_1_3/NEWS
Exploit
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46177/
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