{
  "threat_severity" : "Low",
  "public_date" : "2015-08-25T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "ntp: config command can be used to set the pidfile and drift file paths",
    "id" : "1254547",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1254547"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "4.0",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-73",
  "details" : [ "It was found that NTP's :config command could be used to set the pidfile and driftfile paths without any restrictions. A remote attacker could use this flaw to overwrite a file on the file system with a file containing the pid of the ntpd process (immediately) or the current estimated drift of the system clock (in hourly intervals)." ],
  "acknowledgement" : "This issue was discovered by Miroslav Lichvár (Red Hat).",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "release_date" : "2016-11-03T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2016:2583",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7",
    "package" : "ntp-0:4.2.6p5-25.el7"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "ntp",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Affected",
    "package_name" : "ntp",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-5196\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5196" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2015-5196",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "Disable remote runtime configuration with ntpq or ntpdc. In the default NTP configuration on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, runtime configuration with ntpq or ntpdc is limited to localhost.",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}