CVE-2019-9895
9.8
CRITICAL
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 1.4%
Description
In PuTTY versions before 0.71 on Unix, a remotely triggerable buffer overflow exists in any kind of server-to-client forwarding.
How to fix CVE-2019-9895
To remediate CVE-2019-9895, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/putty—upgrade to 0.71-r0 or later
- Debian/putty—upgrade to 0.70-6 or later
Is CVE-2019-9895 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.4%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 0.71-r0
- from 0, < 0.70-6
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |