CVE-2015-7851

medium

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the save_config function in ntpd in ntp_control.c in NTP before 4.2.8p4, when used on systems that do not use '\' or '/' characters for directory separation such as OpenVMS, allows remote authenticated users to overwrite arbitrary files.

References

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2015-7749

http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2015-0062/

http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/SecurityNotice

http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/NtpBug2918

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-01-28

Updated: 2020-06-18

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.03942