CVE-2021-33500
PuTTY before 0.75 on Windows allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (Windows GUI hang) by telling the PuTTY window to change its title repeatedly at high speed, which results in many
02 Description
PuTTY before 0.75 on Windows allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (Windows GUI hang) by telling the PuTTY window to change its title repeatedly at high speed, which results in many
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
- 1.91% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 79.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/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
- 2021-05-21 19:42Z5 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-03 23:50Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2021-05-21
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- High (CVSS 7.5)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AC:L/AV:N/A:H/C:N/I:N/PR:N/S:U/UI:N
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 26ec81be37f0e90912039595083bc28cc2fa446e16f9ab9d3ca69ace99cff3ae
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.chiark.greenend.org.ukhttps://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.html
- docs.ssh-mitm.athttps://docs.ssh-mitm.at/puttydos.html
- github.comhttps://github.com/ssh-mitm/ssh-mitm-plugins/blob/main/ssh_mitm_plugins/ssh/putty_dos.py
07 Fixed in
Arch Linux
- putty Not affected
Source: Arch Linux Security Tracker, the Arch Linux security team. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- putty No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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.
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- putty No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
- putty No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
- putty No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 25.10
- putty No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
- putty No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 26.10
- putty No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.