Security Advisory

CVE-2015-7703

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-07-24 14:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 07:59:00
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

The "pidfile" or "driftfile" directives in NTP ntpd 4.2.x before 4.2.8p4, and 4.3.x before 4.3.77, when ntpd is configured to allow remote configuration, allows remote attackers with an IP address that is allowed to send configuration requests, and with knowledge of the remote configuration password to write to arbitrary files via the :config command.