Weak File Permissions in PuTTY Affect Sensitive Data Access
CVE-2006-7162

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor: Putty
Status: Putty
Vendor: CVE Published:; 7 March 2007

What is CVE-2006-7162?

PuTTY versions up to 0.59 are susceptible to a vulnerability due to inadequate file permissions for private key files (.ppk) generated by puttygen and session logs created by PuTTY. This oversight allows local users to potentially access sensitive information contained within these files, posing a significant risk to data confidentiality.

Human OS v1.0:
Ageing Is an Unpatched Zero-Day Vulnerability.

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References

http://secunia.com/advisories/24381

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http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=400804

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Timeline

Vulnerability Reserved
Oct 3, 2022
Vulnerability published
Mar 7, 2007

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Putty

What is CVE-2006-7162?

Human OS v1.0: Ageing Is an Unpatched Zero-Day Vulnerability.

References

Timeline

Human OS v1.0:
Ageing Is an Unpatched Zero-Day Vulnerability.