Medium severity · published Apr 15, 2024
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…
5.9
CVSS
5.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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. The required set of signed messages may be publicly readable because they are stored in a public Git service that supports use of SSH for commit signing, and the signatures were made by Pageant through an agent-forwarding mechanism. In other words, an adversary may already have enough signature information to compromise a victim's private key, even if there is no further use of vulnerable PuTTY versions. After a key compromise, an adversary may be able to conduct supply-chain attacks on software maintained in Git. A second, independent scenario is that the adversary is an operator of an SSH server to which the victim authenticates (for remote login or file copy), even though this server is not fully trusted by the victim, and the victim uses the same private key for SSH connections to other services operated by other entities. Here, the rogue server operator (who would otherwise have no way to determine the victim's private key) can derive the victim's private key, and then use it for unauthorized access to those other services. If the other services include Git services, then again it may be possible to conduct supply-chain attacks on software maintained in Git. This also affects, for example, FileZilla before 3.67.0, WinSCP before 6.3.3, TortoiseGit before 2.15.0.1, and TortoiseSVN through 1.14.6.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)5.7% · higher than 93% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
38; 39; 40 · source: NVD
FC
Filezilla Client · Filezilla-project
before 3.67.0 · source: NVD
PU
Putty · Putty
0.68 before 0.81 · source: NVD
TO
Tortoisegit · Tortoisegit
before 2.15.0.1 · source: NVD
TO
Tortoisesvn · Tigris
before 1.14.6 · source: NVD
WI
Winscp · Winscp
before 6.3.3 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-31497
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-31497
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/15/6
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2275183
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1222864
Product
https://docs.ccv.brown.edu/oscar/connecting-to-oscar/ssh/ssh-agent-forwarding/key-generation-and-agent-forwarding-with-putty
Release Notes
https://filezilla-project.org/versions.php
Mailing List
https://git.tartarus.org/?h=c193fe9848f50a88a4089aac647fecc31ae96d27&p=simon/putty.git
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