April 18, 2024 at 04:56AM

Zero-Day in SSH client ‘PuTTY’ assigned CVE-2024-31497 (account takeover via key guessing).

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.

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-p521-bias.html

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-31497

https://thehackernews.com/2024/04/widely-used-putty-ssh-client-found.html

https://t.me/cKure/13871