CVE-2021-33500Putty vulnerability

6 documents6 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.4%
top 39.27%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedMay 21
Latest updateMay 24

Description

PuTTY before 0.75 on Windows allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (Windows GUI hang) by telling the PuTTY window to change its title repeatedly at high speed, which results in many SetWindowTextA or SetWindowTextW calls. NOTE: the same attack methodology may affect some OS-level GUIs on Linux or other platforms for similar reasons.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

NVDputty/putty< 0.75
debiandebian/putty

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-vmq2-m9cv-qwqx: PuTTY before 02022-05-24
CVEList
CVE-2021-33500: PuTTY before 02021-05-21
OSV
CVE-2021-33500: PuTTY before 02021-05-21

📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2021-33500: putty - PuTTY before 0.75 on Windows allows remote servers to cause a denial of service ...2021

🕵️Threat Intelligence

1
Wiz
CVE-2026-4115 Impact, Exploitability, and Mitigation Steps | Wiz