CVE-2016-7433: Ntp

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 9.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

NTP before 4.2.8p9 does not properly perform the initial sync calculations, which allows remote attackers to unspecified impact via unknown vectors, related to a "root distance that did not include the peer dispersion."

Affected products

• Ntp Ntp: up to and including 4.2.8

Published 2017-01-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.