CVE-2016-2563
Published Apr 7, 2016
Last updated 8 years ago
Overview
- Description
- Stack-based buffer overflow in the SCP command-line utility in PuTTY before 0.67 and KiTTY 0.66.6.3 and earlier allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (stack memory corruption) or execute arbitrary code via a crafted SCP-SINK file-size response to an SCP download request.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Modified
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 3.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 9.8
- Impact score
- 5.9
- Exploitability score
- 3.9
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Severity
- CRITICAL
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 7.5
- Impact score
- 6.4
- Exploitability score
- 10
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-119
Configurations
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{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:9bis:kitty:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "479C8AD6-8701-4170-9065-1B4F96CC81F1",
"versionEndIncluding": "0.66.6.3"
},
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:simon_tatham:putty:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "090C55DB-A0E2-4281-8A96-C8CB7291F6D1",
"versionEndIncluding": "0.66"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]