PuTTY up to 0.72 Protection Mechanism Clipboard injection

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A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in PuTTY up to 0.72. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Protection Mechanism. This manipulation causes injection (Clipboard). This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2019-17068. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in PuTTY up to 0.72 (Connectivity Software). Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown functionality of the component Protection Mechanism. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a injection vulnerability (Clipboard). The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-74. 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. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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

The weakness was published 10/01/2019 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at lists.opensuse.org. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2019-17068 since 10/01/2019. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1055 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 0.73 eliminates this vulnerability.

Similar entries are available at VDB-142794 and VDB-142796. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Connectivity Software

Name

• PuTTY

Version

• 0.1
• 0.2
• 0.3
• 0.4
• 0.5
• 0.6
• 0.7
• 0.8
• 0.9
• 0.10
• 0.11
• 0.12
• 0.13
• 0.14
• 0.15
• 0.16
• 0.17
• 0.18
• 0.19
• 0.20
• 0.21
• 0.22
• 0.23
• 0.24
• 0.25
• 0.26
• 0.27
• 0.28
• 0.29
• 0.30
• 0.31
• 0.32
• 0.33
• 0.34
• 0.35
• 0.36
• 0.37
• 0.38
• 0.39
• 0.40
• 0.41
• 0.42
• 0.43
• 0.44
• 0.45
• 0.46
• 0.47
• 0.48
• 0.49
• 0.50
• 0.51
• 0.52
• 0.53
• 0.54
• 0.55
• 0.56
• 0.57
• 0.58
• 0.59
• 0.60
• 0.61
• 0.62
• 0.63
• 0.64
• 0.65
• 0.66
• 0.67
• 0.68
• 0.69
• 0.70
• 0.71
• 0.72

License

• open-source

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