CVE-2019-9896 (GCVE-0-2019-9896)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-03-21 02:31 – Updated: 2024-08-04 22:01
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Summary
In PuTTY versions before 0.71 on Windows, local attackers could hijack the application by putting a malicious help file in the same directory as the executable.
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