CVE-2019-6444

9.1 criticalEPSS 46%

An issue was discovered in NTPsec before 1.1.3. process_control() in ntp_control.c has a stack-based buffer over-read because attacker-controlled data is dereferenced by ntohl() in ntpd.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

9.1 critical

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

EPSS: 46% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 98% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-125
Published: 2019-01-16
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

ntpsec:ntpsec

References

https://dumpco.re/blog/ntpsec-bugs
https://dumpco.re/bugs/ntpsec-oobread2
https://github.com/ntpsec/ntpsec/blob/NTPsec_1_1_3/NEWS
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46176/
https://dumpco.re/blog/ntpsec-bugs

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