SB2019040830 - Use of a broken or risky cryptographic algorithm in putty (Alpine package)
Published: April 8, 2019
Security Bulletin ID
SB2019040830
CSH Severity
High
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Code execution
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Use of a broken or risky cryptographic algorithm (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-9898)
CWE-ID: CWE-327 - Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.
Potential recycling of random numbers used in cryptography exists within PuTTY before 0.71.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=bf0db593e8e6a00eadd5975a64209eb2e9ec5da6
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=ab1b025a4e5e8e9b2d66c265a59fa5d4f623902f
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=5ff69c33184958f7cc0a18b0a80c819d82e9a49e
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=8d25ad814b36930f39f2c7d760a90f54c3350720
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=e29c5d734c6d64bd6709f1e9a9e3404ca37f2211
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=e68f4defc683245fe34f4caa1ad6b6c64e5e6c23