CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-9896
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-03-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-427
Description
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 configurations
• putty putty (< 0.71)
• opensuse backports sle 15.0
• opensuse leap 15.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00004.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00020.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190404-0001/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.html Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00004.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00020.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190404-0001/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.html Release Notes, Third Party Advisory