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Published: 07/03/2007 Updated: 05/09/2008

CVSS v2 Base Score: 1.9 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.4

VMScore: 169

Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

PuTTY 0.59 and previous versions uses weak file permissions for (1) ppk files containing private keys generated by puttygen and (2) session logs created by putty, which allows local users to gain sensitive information by reading these files.

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Debian Bug report logs - #400804 putty-tools: puttygen can create world-readable private keys Package: putty-tools; Maintainer for putty-tools is Colin Watson <cjwatson@debianorg>; Source for putty-tools is src:putty (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg-debianorg@fifthhorsemannet> Date: Tue, ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=400804 http://secunia.com/advisories/24381 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=400804 https://nvd.nist.gov

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