Upstream information

CVE-2019-9896 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 4.6
Vector AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial
CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 7.8
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact High
CVSSv3 Version 3
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1129633 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

    openSUSE-SU-2019:1113-1 openSUSE-SU-2019:1123-1

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Package Hub 15
  • putty >= 0.71-bp150.4.3.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-2019-1123
openSUSE Leap 15.0
  • putty >= 0.71-lp150.9.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-2019-1113

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Mar 22 07:50:16 2019
CVE page last modified: Thu Dec 7 13:21:46 2023