CVE-2019-17068 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2019-17068 at MITRE

Description

PuTTY before 0.73 mishandles the "bracketed paste mode" protection mechanism, which may allow a session to be affected by malicious clipboard content.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	None

CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.5
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack Vector	Network
Attack Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	High
Availability Impact	None
CVSSv3 Version	3.1

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1152753 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

openSUSE-SU-2019:2276-1, published Fri Dec 8 15:48:43 2023
openSUSE-SU-2019:2277-1, published Fri Dec 8 15:48:43 2023
openSUSE-SU-2019:2292-1, published Fri Dec 8 15:48:43 2023

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP1	`putty >= 0.73-bp151.4.6.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2019-2292
SUSE Package Hub 15	`putty >= 0.73-bp150.4.12.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2019-2292
openSUSE Leap 15.0	`putty >= 0.73-lp150.18.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2019-2276
openSUSE Leap 15.1	`putty >= 0.73-lp151.3.6.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2019-2277
openSUSE Tumbleweed	`putty >= 0.76-1.2`	Patchnames: openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-11201

Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s)	Source package	State
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Package Hub 15	putty	Released
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP1	putty	Released

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Wed Oct 2 10:31:49 2019
CVE page last modified: Thu Dec 11 16:10:13 2025