Local File Hijacking Vulnerability in PuTTY Versions before 0.71 on Windows

CVE-2019-9896 · HIGH Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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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