CVE-2016-0727

23Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 1.3%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDApr 14

1st PoCJan 21

exploitation probability

1.3%top 34% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

2 public exploit(s)

The crontab script in the ntp package before 1:4.2.6.p3+dfsg-1ubuntu3.11 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, before 1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3ubuntu2.14.04.10 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, on Ubuntu Wily, and before 1:4.2.8p4+dfsg-3ubuntu5.3 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS allows local users with access to the ntp account to write to arbitrary files and consequently gain privileges via vectors involving statistics directory cleanup.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 2

exploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/41764unverified cve_referencepacketstormsecurity.com/files/141913/NTP-Privilege-Escalation.htmlunverified

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References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/141913/NTP-Privilege-Escalation.html https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ntp/+bug/1528050 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1382369 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81552 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034808 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3096-1