Synology DiskStation Manager NTPD Victim's Clock Modification (CVE-2018-7170)

medium Tenable OT Security Plugin ID 502464

Synopsis

The remote OT asset is affected by a vulnerability.

Description

ntpd in ntp 4.2.x before 4.2.8p7 and 4.3.x before 4.3.92 allows authenticated users that know the private symmetric key to create arbitrarily-many ephemeral associations in order to win the clock selection of ntpd and modify a victim's clock via a Sybil attack. This issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-1549.

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Solution

Refer to the vendor advisory.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 502464

Version: 1.2

Type: remote

Family: Tenable.ot

Published: 10/1/2024

Updated: 10/2/2024

Supported Sensors: Tenable OT Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-7170

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:synology:diskstation_manager

Required KB Items: Tenable.ot/Synology

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/6/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/6/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-7170

Detections

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