CVE-2019-17068
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.37%
Description
PuTTY before 0.73 mishandles the "bracketed paste mode" protection mechanism, which may allow a session to be affected by malicious clipboard content.
How to fix CVE-2019-17068
To remediate CVE-2019-17068, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/putty—upgrade to 0.73-r0 or later
- Debian/putty—upgrade to 0.73-1 or later
Is CVE-2019-17068 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.4%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 0.73-r0
- from 0, < 0.73-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |