CVE-2020-14002

Summary

CVECVE-2020-14002
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-06-29 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:17:00 UTC
DescriptionPuTTY 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).

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-203

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 31 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 32 All All All
Application Netapp Oncommand Unified Manager Core Package - All All All
Application Putty Putty All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: putty-0.74-1.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: putty-0.74-1.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
CVE-2020-14002 PuTTY Vulnerability in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com
www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.html MISC www.chiark.greenend.org.uk Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: putty-0.74-1.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
Detail en : FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik MISC www.fzi.de Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: putty-0.74-1.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
The PuTTY-announce Archives MISC lists.tartarus.org Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 375441 Putty Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
  • 500554 Alpine Linux Security Update for putty
  • 504324 Alpine Linux Security Update for putty
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