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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.8

CVE-2019-9898 json

Potential recycling of random numbers used in cryptography exists within PuTTY before 0.71.

published 2019-03-21 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-19254

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.9%
EPSS 3.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 90%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Potential recycling of random numbers used in cryptography exists within PuTTY before 0.71.

Patch / fix

  • putty putty 0.71
  • putty Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.70-6

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-9898

  • putty Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 0.67-3+deb9u1build0.16.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2019-9898

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • putty Package Hub 15 0.71-bp150.4.3.1
  • putty openSUSE Leap 15.0 0.71-lp150.9.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2019:1123-1openSUSE-SU-2019:1113-1

  • putty Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +16 more 0.71-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2019-9898

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2019-9898 updated cvss 7.3

putty: multiple vulnerabilities

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.94% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-330 Use of Insufficiently Random Values

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.