Putty
CVE-2019-9897
HIGH
Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Primary rating from NVD · only source for this CVE.
CVSS VectorNVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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1DescriptionNVD
Multiple denial-of-service attacks that can be triggered by writing to the terminal exist in PuTTY versions before 0.71.
AnalysisAI
Multiple denial-of-service attacks that can be triggered by writing to the terminal exist in PuTTY versions before 0.71. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.
Technical ContextAI
Multiple denial-of-service attacks that can be triggered by writing to the terminal exist in PuTTY versions before 0.71. Affected products include: Putty, Fedoraproject Fedora, Debian Debian Linux, Netapp Oncommand Unified Manager, Opensuse Leap. Version information: before 0.71..
RemediationAI
A vendor patch is available. Apply the latest security update as soon as possible. Apply vendor patches when available. Implement network segmentation and monitoring as interim mitigations.
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The ssh_agent_channel_data function in PuTTY before 0.68 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a large
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PuTTY before 0.73 on Windows improperly opens port-forwarding listening sockets, which allows attackers to listen on the
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In PuTTY versions before 0.71 on Unix, a remotely triggerable buffer overflow exists in any kind of server-to-client for
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PuTTY before 0.73 might allow remote SSH-1 servers to cause a denial of service by accessing freed memory locations via
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