Description
The rate limiting feature in NTP 4.x before 4.2.8p4 and 4.3.x before 4.3.77 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a large number of crafted requests.
Published: 2017-08-07
Score: 9.8 Critical
EPSS: 31.0% Moderate
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories
Source ID Title
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2783-1 NTP vulnerabilities
References
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http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00020.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00034.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00037.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00048.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00052.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00001.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00020.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00026.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00042.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00093.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00114.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/134137/Slackware-Security-Advisory-ntp-Updates.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/NtpBug2901 cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/SecurityNotice#October_2015_NTP_4_2_8p4_Securit cve-icon cve-icon
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20151021-ntp cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/536737/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/536796/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/536737/100/100/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/536796/100/100/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77284 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033951 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2783-1 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa103 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1274184 cve-icon cve-icon
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-211752.pdf cve-icon cve-icon
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-497656.pdf cve-icon cve-icon
https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1020.pdf cve-icon cve-icon
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05270839 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-7705 cve-icon
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-15 cve-icon cve-icon
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20171004-0001/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX220112 cve-icon cve-icon
https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-21-103-11 cve-icon cve-icon
https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-21-159-11 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.arista.com/en/support/advisories-notices/security-advisories/1212-security-advisory-0016 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cs.bu.edu/~goldbe/NTPattack.html cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7705 cve-icon
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/718152 cve-icon cve-icon
History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.34885}

epss

{'score': 0.25676}


Subscriptions

Citrix Xenserver
Netapp Clustered Data Ontap Data Ontap Oncommand Performance Manager Oncommand Unified Manager
Ntp Ntp
Siemens Tim 4r-ie Tim 4r-ie Dnp3 Tim 4r-ie Dnp3 Firmware Tim 4r-ie Firmware
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T07:58:59.826Z

Reserved: 2015-10-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2015-7705

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-08-07T20:29:00.730

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2015-7705

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2015-10-21T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-7705 - Bugzilla

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