CVE-2019-17069
putty - security update
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.47%
Description
PuTTY before 0.73 might allow remote SSH-1 servers to cause a denial of service by accessing freed memory locations via an SSH1_MSG_DISCONNECT message.
How to fix CVE-2019-17069
To remediate CVE-2019-17069, 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
- —upgrade to 0.74-1+deb11u1~deb10u1 or later
Is CVE-2019-17069 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.5%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (3)
- from 0, < 0.73-r0
- from 0, < 0.73-1
- from 0, < 0.74-1+deb11u1~deb10u1
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:N/A:H |