CVE-2019-9896

published 2019-03-21

CVE-2019-9896: In PuTTY versions before 0.71 on Windows, local attackers could hijack the application by putting a malicious help file in the same directory as the executable.

Priority P3 35 high 7.8 CVSS 3.1

AV L AC L PR L UI N S U C H I H A H

In PuTTY versions before 0.71 on Windows, local attackers could hijack the application by putting a malicious help file in the same directory as the executable.

Affected

4 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	putty	—	—
opensuse	backports_sle	—	—
opensuse	leap	—	—
putty	putty	< 0.71	0.71

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 7.8 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 4.6 MEDIUM AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

vendor_debian 7.8 LOW

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