CVE-2019-9898
Potential recycling of random numbers used in cryptography exists within PuTTY before 0.71.
02 Description
Potential recycling of random numbers used in cryptography exists within PuTTY before 0.71.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 3.93% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 89.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 9.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2019-03-21 02:31Z7 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-04 22:01Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2019-03-20
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-330Use of Insufficiently Random ValuesClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- f0732fdae7f88906a6213e51712e751af7303e7f8de50a8b206222d61ebcf40e
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.chiark.greenend.org.ukhttps://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.html
- www.securityfocus.com107523http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107523
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2019-5776dfe300https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LDO3F267P347E6U2IILFCYW7JPTLCCES/
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2019-9e1a1cd634https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/36LWQ3NPFIV7DC7TC4KFPRYRH2OR7SZ2/
- security.netapp.comhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190329-0002/
- security.netapp.comhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190401-0002/
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2019:1113http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00004.html
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2019:1123http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00020.html
- seclists.org20190403 [SECURITY] [DSA 4423-1] putty security updatehttps://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Apr/6
- www.debian.orgDSA-4423https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4423
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20190424 [SECURITY] [DLA 1763-1] putty security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00023.html
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- putty Fixed in 0.70-6
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- putty Fixed in 0.70-6
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- putty Fixed in 0.70-6
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- putty Fixed in 0.67-3+deb9u1build0.16.04.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- putty No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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