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CVE-2019-9898

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-03-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-330

Description

Potential recycling of random numbers used in cryptography exists within PuTTY before 0.71.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 28, 29
• NetApp OnCommand Unified Manager for 7-Mode (core package): all versions
• openSUSE Leap: 15.0
• PuTTY: before 0.71 — fixed in 0.71

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: PuTTY 0.71. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00004.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00020.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107523
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00023.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/36LWQ3NPFIV7DC7TC4KFPRYRH2OR7SZ2/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LDO3F267P347E6U2IILFCYW7JPTLCCES/
• https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Apr/6
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190329-0002/
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190401-0002/
• https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.html
• https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4423
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00004.html

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