CVEvulnerability

CVE-2003-0048

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2003-02-19 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2003-02-19
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

PuTTY 0.53b and earlier does not clear logon credentials from memory, including plaintext passwords, which could allow attackers with access to memory to steal the SSH credentials.

Affected configurations

• putty putty 0.48 • putty putty 0.49 • putty putty 0.53 • putty putty 0.53b

References