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CVE-2019-9896
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2019-03-21T16:01:17.813 · Last modified 2026-06-17T02:44:48.540

Summary

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.

Affected products

putty — putty

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References

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