Information Exposure Affecting putty package, versions [,0.60)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PUTTY-2368675
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed7 Mar 2007
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 Mar 2007

CVE-2006-7162  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade putty to version 0.60 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. PuTTY 0.59 and earlier uses weak file permissions for (1) ppk files containing private keys generated by puttygen and (2) session logs created by putty, which allows local users to gain sensitive information by reading these files.

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