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CVE-2024-38528

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2024-06-28 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

nptd-rs is a tool for synchronizing your computer's clock, implementing the NTP and NTS protocols. There is a missing limit for accepted NTS-KE connections. This allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to crash ntpd-rs when an NTS-KE server is configured. Non NTS-KE server configurations, such as the default ntpd-rs configuration, are unaffected. This vulnerability has been patched in version 1.1.3.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-770

References