CVE-2019-6443

EPSS 66.9%◆ VulnCheck KEV

Vexday Risk Score

72High priority

SSVC decision (CISA)

Act

Exploitation + impact → act immediately

Exploit maturity

Functional exploit

Automatable exploit available (Nuclei/Metasploit).

CVSS —EPSS 66.9%KEV nãoPoC públicaNuclei simMetasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

16 Jan 2019Public PoC

16 Jan 2019Published on NVD

Weaponization speed

same dayto first PoC

Weaponized quickly — attackers prioritized this vulnerability. Patch urgently.

Recommendation: Patch as soon as possible — active exploitation confirmed.

An issue was discovered in NTPsec before 1.1.3. Because of a bug in ctl_getitem, there is a stack-based buffer over-read in read_sysvars in ntp_control.c in ntpd.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 2

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References

https://dumpco.re/blog/ntpsec-bugs https://dumpco.re/bugs/ntpsec-oobread1 https://github.com/ntpsec/ntpsec/blob/NTPsec_1_1_3/NEWS https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46175/