GHSA-3gmh-m5h5-5234

GHSA-3gmh-m5h5-5234 PUBLISHED CVSS 5.300000190734863 MEDIUM

Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 17, 2022

NTP before 4.2.8p7 and 4.3.x before 4.3.92 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (prevent subsequent authentication) by leveraging knowledge of the controlkey or requestkey and sending a crafted packet to ntpd, which changes the value of trustedkey, controlkey, or requestkey. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2016-2516 regression.

Risk scores

CVSS 3.0

5.300000190734863

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

Timeline

May 17, 2022 CVE Published
Apr 29, 2026 Security Advisory

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The same record, from the CLI:

vulnetix vdb vuln GHSA-3gmh-m5h5-5234
vulnetix vdb fixes GHSA-3gmh-m5h5-5234

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curl -s -H "Authorization: ApiKey ${VULNETIX_ORG_ID}:${VULNETIX_API_KEY}" \
  "https://api.vdb.vulnetix.com/v2/vuln/GHSA-3gmh-m5h5-5234/fixes/registry"

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