CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-17068

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')

Published: Oct 01, 2019 | Modified: Nov 27, 2019
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

PuTTY before 0.73 mishandles the bracketed paste mode protection mechanism, which may allow a session to be affected by malicious clipboard content.

Weakness

The product constructs all or part of a command, data structure, or record using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify how it is parsed or interpreted when it is sent to a downstream component.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Putty Putty * 0.73 (excluding)
Putty Ubuntu bionic *
Putty Ubuntu disco *
Putty Ubuntu eoan *
Putty Ubuntu trusty *
Putty Ubuntu upstream *
Putty Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

References