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CVE-2014-125036: drybjed ansible-ntp main.yml amplification

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-01-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-406

Description

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in drybjed ansible-ntp. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file meta/main.yml. The manipulation leads to insufficient control of network message volume. The attack can only be done within the local network. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The patch is identified as ed4ca2cf012677973c220cdba36b5c60bfa0260b. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. VDB-217190 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability.

Affected products

• drybjed ansible-ntp: before 2014-10-08 — fixed in 2014-10-08

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: drybjed ansible-ntp 2014-10-08. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/drybjed/ansible-ntp/commit/ed4ca2cf012677973c220cdba36b5c60bfa0260b
• https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.217190
• https://vuldb.com/?id.217190
• https://github.com/drybjed/ansible-ntp/commit/ed4ca2cf012677973c220cdba36b5c60bfa0260b
• https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.217190
• https://vuldb.com/?id.217190

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