CVE-2015-2157: Putty vulnerability
Vendor fix available · Affected: Putty · Exploitation: unlikely (under 1%)
Not in CyberSIXT coverage yet: no article names this CVE. This page shows the public record.
Higher than 48% of scored CVEs
Not scored yet. The CVE record carries no CVSS score.
DescriptionCVE.org
The (1) ssh2_load_userkey and (2) ssh2_save_userkey functions in PuTTY 0.51 through 0.63 do not properly wipe SSH-2 private keys from memory, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the memory.
On the Atlas
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- Exploitation
- Unlikely (under 1%). EPSS under 1%, or no score yet.
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Public check
- No public nuclei template
- Vendor
- Putty
- Published
- March 2015
CoverageNo articles yet
No CyberSIXT article names CVE-2015-2157 yet, so there is no coverage timeline, action brief or change log for it. Everything on this page comes from the public CVE record, CISA KEV, EPSS and the nuclei template index. Search the archive or see the CVEs in the news.
References
- NVD entrynvd.nist.gov
- CVE recordcve.org
- Weakness CWE-200cwe.mitre.org
- Vendor advisorylists.fedoraproject.org
- Vendor advisorydebian.org
- Vendor advisorylists.fedoraproject.org
- Vendor advisorylists.opensuse.org
- Vendor advisorylists.fedoraproject.org
- chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.htmlchiark.greenend.org.uk
- securityfocus.com/bid/72825securityfocus.com
- chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/private-key-not-chiark.greenend.org.uk
- Mailing listopenwall.com
- Mailing listopenwall.com