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NTPd < 4.2.8p2, 4.3.x < 4.3.12 Keygen Vulnerability

🗓️ 07 Jul 2021 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2021 Greenbone AGType 
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NTPd < 4.2.8p2, 4.3.x < 4.3.12 Keygen Vulnerability. ntp-keygen does not generate MD5 keys with sufficient entropy on big endian machines, allowing remote attackers to obtain the value of generated MD5 keys via a brute force attack with the 93 possible keys

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

CPE = "cpe:/a:ntp:ntp";

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.146236");
  script_version("2024-02-20T05:05:48+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-02-20 05:05:48 +0000 (Tue, 20 Feb 2024)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2021-07-07 08:38:10 +0000 (Wed, 07 Jul 2021)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2020-05-28 14:08:00 +0000 (Thu, 28 May 2020)");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2015-3405");

  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner_unreliable");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");

  script_name("NTPd < 4.2.8p2, 4.3.x < 4.3.12 Keygen Vulnerability");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2021 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Denial of Service");
  script_dependencies("ntp_open.nasl", "gb_ntp_detect_lin.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("ntpd/version/detected");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"NTPd is prone to a vulnerability in ntp-keygen.");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"ntp-keygen does not generate MD5 keys with sufficient entropy
  on big endian machines when the lowest order byte of the temp variable is between 0x20 and 0x7f
  and not #, which might allow remote attackers to obtain the value of generated MD5 keys via a
  brute force attack with the 93 possible keys.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"NTPd version prior to 4.2.8p2 and 4.3.x prior to 4.3.12.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 4.2.8p2 or later.");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/23/14");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugs.ntp.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2797");

  exit(0);
}

include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");

if (isnull(port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE)))
  exit(0);

if (!infos = get_app_full(cpe: CPE, port: port, exit_no_version: TRUE))
  exit(0);

version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];
proto = infos["proto"];

if (version_is_less(version: version, test_version: "4.2.8p2")) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "4.2.8p2", install_path: location);
  security_message(port: port, proto: proto, data: report);
  exit(0);
}

if (version =~ "^4\.3\." && version_is_less(version: version, test_version: "4.3.12")) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "4.3.12", install_path: location);
  security_message(port: port, proto: proto, data: report);
  exit(0);
}

exit(99);

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