CVE-2019-9898
9.8
CRITICAL
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 4.3%
Description
Potential recycling of random numbers used in cryptography exists within PuTTY before 0.71.
How to fix CVE-2019-9898
To remediate CVE-2019-9898, 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-2019-9898 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 4.3%, 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 |