Vulnerability CVE-2019-9896
Published: 2019-03-21

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.

Type:

CWE-20

 (Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.6/10
6.4/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Putty -> Putty 

 References:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00004.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00020.html
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190404-0001/
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.html
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