CVE-2020-14002

Name
CVE-2020-14002
Description
PuTTY 0.68 through 0.73 has an Observable Discrepancy leading to an information leak in the algorithm negotiation. This allows man-in-the-middle attackers to target initial connection attempts (where no host key for the server has been cached by the client).
NVD Severity
medium
Other trackers
Mailing lists
Exploits
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
Release Notes https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.html
Third Party Advisory https://www.fzi.de/en/news/news/detail-en/artikel/fsa-2020-2-ausnutzung-eines-informationslecks-fuer-gezielte-mitm-angriffe-auf-ssh-clients/
Third Party Advisory https://lists.tartarus.org/pipermail/putty-announce/
FEDORA https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JPV4A77EDCT4BTFO5BE26ZH72BG4E5IJ/
FEDORA https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/26TACCSQYYCPWAJYNAUIXJGZ5RGORJZV/
CONFIRM https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200717-0003/

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:putty:putty:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* putty >= 0.68 <= 0.73

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status
putty 3.10-main 0.74-r0 Jeff Bilyk <jbilyk@alpinelinux.org> fixed