Vulnerability in PuTTY Client Allows Recovery of Private Key

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Fedora 39 : filezilla / libfilezilla (2024-8401d42de6)

The remote Fedora 39 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-8401d42de6 advisory. Fix for CVE-2024-31497 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Note that Nessus has not tested for...

Biased ECDSA Nonce Generation

PuTTYis vulnerable to biased ECDSA nonce generation. The vulnerability is due to biased ECDSA nonce generation, allowing an attacker to recover a user's NIST P-521 secret key via a quick attack in approximately 60 signatures. This is particularly significant in scenarios where an adversary can re...

PuTTY < 0.81 Key Recovery Attack Vulnerability

In PuTTY 0.68 through 0.80 before 0.81, biased ECDSA nonce generation allows an attacker to recover a user's NIST P-521 secret key via a quick attack in approximately 60 signatures. This is especially important in a scenario where an adversary is able to read messages signed by PuTTY or Pageant...

Widely-Used PuTTY SSH Client Found Vulnerable to Key Recovery Attack

The maintainers of the PuTTY Secure Shell SSH and Telnet client are alerting users of a critical vulnerability impacting versions from 0.68 through 0.80 that could be exploited to achieve full recovery of NIST P-521 ecdsa-sha2-nistp521 private keys. The flaw has been assigned the CVE identifier...

Vulnerability fixed in Putty

Putty has fixed a vulnerability in Putty Client. The vulnerability in Putty is in how the ECDSA nonce is created when using NIST P-521. This makes possible for a malicious person to guess the nonce and use using the signed text to retrieve the private key. Putty is also used in the following...

The vulnerability of the ECDSA signature generation component in client software for various remote access protocols allows a hacker to intercept session sessions.

The vulnerability of the ECDSA signature generation component in client software for various remote access protocols, such as Putty, is related to the possibility of recovering the secret key. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to intercept sessions by recovering the secret ke...

FreeBSD : PuTTY and embedders (f.i., filezilla) -- biased RNG with NIST P521/ecdsa-sha2-nistp521 signatures permits recovering private key (080936ba-fbb7-11ee-abc8-6960f2492b1d)

The version of FreeBSD installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the 080936ba-fbb7-11ee-abc8-6960f2492b1d advisory. - In PuTTY 0.68 through 0.80 before 0.81, biased ECDSA nonce generation allows an attacker to recover a...

SUSE CVE-2024-31497

In PuTTY 0.68 through 0.80 before 0.81, biased ECDSA nonce generation allows an attacker to recover a user's NIST P-521 secret key via a quick attack in approximately 60 signatures. This is especially important in a scenario where an adversary is able to read messages signed by PuTTY or Pageant...

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-31497

In PuTTY 0.68 through 0.80 before 0.81, biased ECDSA nonce generation allows an attacker to recover a user's NIST P-521 secret key via a quick attack in approximately 60 signatures. This is especially important in a scenario where an adversary is able to read messages signed by PuTTY or Pageant...

ALPINE-CVE-2024-31497

In PuTTY 0.68 through 0.80 before 0.81, biased ECDSA nonce generation allows an attacker to recover a user's NIST P-521 secret key via a quick attack in approximately 60 signatures. This is especially important in a scenario where an adversary is able to read messages signed by PuTTY or Pageant...

CVE-2024-31497

In PuTTY 0.68 through 0.80 before 0.81, biased ECDSA nonce generation allows an attacker to recover a user's NIST P-521 secret key via a quick attack in approximately 60 signatures. This is especially important in a scenario where an adversary is able to read messages signed by PuTTY or Pageant...

CVE-2024-31497

In PuTTY 0.68 through 0.80 before 0.81, biased ECDSA nonce generation allows an attacker to recover a user's NIST P-521 secret key via a quick attack in approximately 60 signatures. This is especially important in a scenario where an adversary is able to read messages signed by PuTTY or Pageant...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-31497

In PuTTY 0.68 through 0.80 before 0.81, biased ECDSA nonce generation allows an attacker to recover a user's NIST P-521 secret key via a quick attack in approximately 60 signatures. This is especially important in a scenario where an adversary is able to read messages signed by PuTTY or Pageant...

CVE-2024-31497

In PuTTY 0.68 through 0.80 before 0.81, biased ECDSA nonce generation allows an attacker to recover a user's NIST P-521 secret key via a quick attack in approximately 60 signatures. This is especially important in a scenario where an adversary is able to read messages signed by PuTTY or Pageant...

KLA65599 OSI vulnerability in PuTTY

Information disclosure vulnerability was found in PuTTY. Malicious users can exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information. Original advisories oss-security – CVE-2024-31497: Secret Key Recovery of NIST P-521 Private Keys Through Biased ECDSA Nonces in PuTTY Client Exploitation Publi...

CVE-2024-31497: Use of Cryptographically Weak Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG)

In PuTTY 0.68 through 0.80 before 0.81, biased ECDSA nonce generation allows an attacker to recover a user's NIST P-521 secret key via a quick attack in approximately 60 signatures. This is especially important in a scenario where an adversary is able to read messages signed by PuTTY or Pageant...

CVE-2024-31497

In PuTTY 0.68 through 0.80 before 0.81, biased ECDSA nonce generation allows an attacker to recover a user's NIST P-521 secret key via a quick attack in approximately 60 signatures. This is especially important in a scenario where an adversary is able to read messages signed by PuTTY or Pageant...

CVE-2024-31497

PuTTY versions 0.68–0.80 (before 0.81) are vulnerable to a biased ECDSA nonce issue that can enable an attacker to recover a user’s NIST P-521 private key after observing signatures. The CVE is discussed in multiple advisories and vendor notices (Debian LTS advisory DLA-3839-1, Fedora package upd...

CVE-2024-31497

In PuTTY 0.68 through 0.80 before 0.81, biased ECDSA nonce generation allows an attacker to recover a user's NIST P-521 secret key via a quick attack in approximately 60 signatures. This is especially important in a scenario where an adversary is able to read messages signed by PuTTY or Pageant...