CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-2496

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2005-09-02 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-09-02
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

The xntpd ntp (ntpd) daemon before 4.2.0b, when run with the -u option and using a string to specify the group, uses the group ID of the user instead of the group, which causes xntpd to run with different privileges than intended.

Affected configurations

• dave mills ntpd (<= 4.2.0.a.2004-06-17 4.fc3)

Related

Referenced by CWE · observed example (2)

  • CWE-266 Incorrect Privilege Assignment weakness
  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness

References