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CVE-2016-1549

MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5 EPSS 3.15%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2017-01-06 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2016-1549
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.5
EPSS
3.15%

Original NVD Description

A malicious authenticated peer can create arbitrarily-many ephemeral associations in order to win the clock selection algorithm in ntpd in NTP 4.2.8p4 and earlier and NTPsec 3e160db8dc248a0bcb053b56a80167dc742d2b74 and a5fb34b9cc89b92a8fef2f459004865c93bb7f92 and modify a victim's clock.