CVE-2019-9896

Description

In PuTTY versions before 0.71 on Windows, local attackers could hijack the application by putting a malicious help file in the same directory as the executable.

References

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.html

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190404-0001/

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00020.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00004.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3