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

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 CVE-2024-31497, with the discovery credited to researchers Fabian Bäumer and Marcus

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