CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-14002

5.9 MEDIUM Published 2020-06-29 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-06-29
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-203

Description

PuTTY 0.68 through 0.73 has an Observable Discrepancy leading to an information leak in the algorithm negotiation. This allows man-in-the-middle attackers to target initial connection attempts (where no host key for the server has been cached by the client).

Affected configurations

• putty putty (>= 0.68 <= 0.73) • netapp oncommand unified manager core package • fedoraproject fedora 31 • fedoraproject fedora 32

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-203 Observable Discrepancy weakness

References