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CVE-2024-31497 Detail

Modified After Enrichment

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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.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/15/6 CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2275183 CVE, MITRE Issue Tracking 
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1222864 CVE, MITRE Issue Tracking 
https://docs.ccv.brown.edu/oscar/connecting-to-oscar/ssh/ssh-agent-forwarding/key-generation-and-agent-forwarding-with-putty CVE, MITRE Product 
https://filezilla-project.org/versions.php CVE, MITRE Release Notes 
https://git.tartarus.org/?h=c193fe9848f50a88a4089aac647fecc31ae96d27&p=simon/putty.git CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Patch 
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6p4c-r453-8743 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/daedalus/BreakingECDSAwithLLL CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00014.html CVE, MITRE
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IZS3B37GNGWOOV7QU7B7JFK76U4TOP4V/ CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MMHILY2K7HQGQRHOC375KRRG2M6625RD/ CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PUOTQVGC4DISVHQGSPUYGXO6TLDK65LA/ CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WFDZBV7ZCAZ6AH3VCQ34SSY7L3J7VZXZ/ CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WMJH7M663BVO3SY6MFAW2FAZWLLXAPRQ/ CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/IZS3B37GNGWOOV7QU7B7JFK76U4TOP4V/ CVE
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/MMHILY2K7HQGQRHOC375KRRG2M6625RD/ CVE
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/PUOTQVGC4DISVHQGSPUYGXO6TLDK65LA/ CVE
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/WMJH7M663BVO3SY6MFAW2FAZWLLXAPRQ/ CVE
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40044665 CVE, MITRE Issue Tracking 
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-31497 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://securityonline.info/cve-2024-31497-critical-putty-vulnerability-exposes-private-keys-immediate-action-required/ CVE, MITRE Press/Media Coverage 
https://tartarus.org/~simon/putty-snapshots/htmldoc/Chapter9.html#pageant-forward CVE, MITRE Product 
https://tortoisegit.org CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://twitter.com/CCBalert/status/1780229237569470549 CVE, MITRE Press/Media Coverage 
https://twitter.com/lambdafu/status/1779969509522133272 CVE, MITRE Press/Media Coverage 
https://winscp.net/eng/news.php CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/putty-ssh-client-flaw-allows-recovery-of-cryptographic-private-keys/ CVE, MITRE Press/Media Coverage 
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.html CVE, MITRE Release Notes  Vendor Advisory 
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-p521-bias.html CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/15/6 CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1c4wmoj/putty_vulnerability_affecting_v068_to_v08/ CVE, MITRE Press/Media Coverage 
https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/understanding-a-critical-vulnerability-in-putty-biased-ecdsa-nonce-generation-revealing-nist-p-521-private-keys-cve-2024-31497 CVE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-338 Use of Cryptographically Weak Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) πŸ‘ cwe source acceptance level
NIST  
CISA-ADP  

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Change History

20 change records found show changes

CVE Modified by CISA-ADP 6/17/2026 3:28:32 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Affected
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Added SSVC
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CVE Modified by MITRE 6/17/2026 3:28:32 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Affected
[{"vendor":"n/a","product":"n/a","versions":[{"version":"n/a","status":"affected"}]}]


CVE Modified by CVE 11/04/2025 5:16:00 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Reference
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/MMHILY2K7HQGQRHOC375KRRG2M6625RD/


CVE Modified by CVE 11/04/2025 2:17:08 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Reference
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/WMJH7M663BVO3SY6MFAW2FAZWLLXAPRQ/


CVE Modified by CVE 11/04/2025 1:16:19 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Reference
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/IZS3B37GNGWOOV7QU7B7JFK76U4TOP4V/


Added Reference
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/PUOTQVGC4DISVHQGSPUYGXO6TLDK65LA/


CVE Modified by CISA-ADP 3/27/2025 11:15:51 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added CVSS V3.1
AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N


Added CWE
CWE-338


CVE Modified by CVE 11/21/2024 4:13:38 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Reference
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/15/6


Added Reference
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2275183


Added Reference
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1222864


Added Reference
https://docs.ccv.brown.edu/oscar/connecting-to-oscar/ssh/ssh-agent-forwarding/key-generation-and-agent-forwarding-with-putty


Added Reference
https://filezilla-project.org/versions.php


Added Reference
https://git.tartarus.org/?h=c193fe9848f50a88a4089aac647fecc31ae96d27&p=simon/putty.git


Added Reference
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6p4c-r453-8743


Added Reference
https://github.com/daedalus/BreakingECDSAwithLLL


Added Reference
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00014.html


Added Reference
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IZS3B37GNGWOOV7QU7B7JFK76U4TOP4V/


Added Reference
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MMHILY2K7HQGQRHOC375KRRG2M6625RD/


Added Reference
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PUOTQVGC4DISVHQGSPUYGXO6TLDK65LA/


Added Reference
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WFDZBV7ZCAZ6AH3VCQ34SSY7L3J7VZXZ/


Added Reference
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WMJH7M663BVO3SY6MFAW2FAZWLLXAPRQ/


Added Reference
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40044665


Added Reference
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-31497


Added Reference
https://securityonline.info/cve-2024-31497-critical-putty-vulnerability-exposes-private-keys-immediate-action-required/


Added Reference
https://tartarus.org/~simon/putty-snapshots/htmldoc/Chapter9.html#pageant-forward


Added Reference
https://tortoisegit.org


Added Reference
https://twitter.com/CCBalert/status/1780229237569470549


Added Reference
https://twitter.com/lambdafu/status/1779969509522133272


Added Reference
https://winscp.net/eng/news.php


Added Reference
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/putty-ssh-client-flaw-allows-recovery-of-cryptographic-private-keys/


Added Reference
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.html


Added Reference
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-p521-bias.html


Added Reference
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/15/6


Added Reference
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1c4wmoj/putty_vulnerability_affecting_v068_to_v08/


Added Reference
https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/understanding-a-critical-vulnerability-in-putty-biased-ecdsa-nonce-generation-revealing-nist-p-521-private-keys-cve-2024-31497


CVE Modified by MITRE 6/20/2024 3:15:49 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Reference
MITRE https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00014.html [No types assigned]


CVE Modified by MITRE 5/14/2024 11:25:30 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value

Initial Analysis by NIST 5/10/2024 10:33:55 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added CVSS V3.1
NIST AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N


Added CWE
NIST CWE-338


Added CPE Configuration
OR
 *cpe:2.3:a:filezilla-project:filezilla_client:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 3.67.0


Added CPE Configuration
OR
 *cpe:2.3:a:putty:putty:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 0.68 up to (excluding) 0.81


Added CPE Configuration
OR
 *cpe:2.3:a:tigris:tortoisesvn:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 1.14.6


Added CPE Configuration
OR
 *cpe:2.3:a:tortoisegit:tortoisegit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 2.15.0.1


Added CPE Configuration
OR
 *cpe:2.3:a:winscp:winscp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 6.3.3


Added CPE Configuration
OR
 *cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:38:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
 *cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:39:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
 *cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:40:*:*:*:*:*:*:*


Changed Reference Type
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/15/6 No Types Assigned


http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/15/6 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory


Changed Reference Type
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2275183 No Types Assigned


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2275183 Issue Tracking


Changed Reference Type
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1222864 No Types Assigned


https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1222864 Issue Tracking


Changed Reference Type
https://docs.ccv.brown.edu/oscar/connecting-to-oscar/ssh/ssh-agent-forwarding/key-generation-and-agent-forwarding-with-putty No Types Assigned


https://docs.ccv.brown.edu/oscar/connecting-to-oscar/ssh/ssh-agent-forwarding/key-generation-and-agent-forwarding-with-putty Product


Changed Reference Type
https://filezilla-project.org/versions.php No Types Assigned


https://filezilla-project.org/versions.php Release Notes


Changed Reference Type
https://git.tartarus.org/?h=c193fe9848f50a88a4089aac647fecc31ae96d27&p=simon/putty.git No Types Assigned


https://git.tartarus.org/?h=c193fe9848f50a88a4089aac647fecc31ae96d27&p=simon/putty.git Mailing List, Patch


Changed Reference Type
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6p4c-r453-8743 No Types Assigned


https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6p4c-r453-8743 Third Party Advisory


Changed Reference Type
https://github.com/daedalus/BreakingECDSAwithLLL No Types Assigned


https://github.com/daedalus/BreakingECDSAwithLLL Third Party Advisory


Changed Reference Type
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IZS3B37GNGWOOV7QU7B7JFK76U4TOP4V/ No Types Assigned


https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IZS3B37GNGWOOV7QU7B7JFK76U4TOP4V/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory


Changed Reference Type
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MMHILY2K7HQGQRHOC375KRRG2M6625RD/ No Types Assigned


https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MMHILY2K7HQGQRHOC375KRRG2M6625RD/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory


Changed Reference Type
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PUOTQVGC4DISVHQGSPUYGXO6TLDK65LA/ No Types Assigned


https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PUOTQVGC4DISVHQGSPUYGXO6TLDK65LA/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory


Changed Reference Type
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WFDZBV7ZCAZ6AH3VCQ34SSY7L3J7VZXZ/ No Types Assigned


https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WFDZBV7ZCAZ6AH3VCQ34SSY7L3J7VZXZ/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory


Changed Reference Type
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WMJH7M663BVO3SY6MFAW2FAZWLLXAPRQ/ No Types Assigned


https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WMJH7M663BVO3SY6MFAW2FAZWLLXAPRQ/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory


Changed Reference Type
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40044665 No Types Assigned


https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40044665 Issue Tracking


Changed Reference Type
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-31497 No Types Assigned


https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-31497 Third Party Advisory


Changed Reference Type
https://securityonline.info/cve-2024-31497-critical-putty-vulnerability-exposes-private-keys-immediate-action-required/ No Types Assigned


https://securityonline.info/cve-2024-31497-critical-putty-vulnerability-exposes-private-keys-immediate-action-required/ Press/Media Coverage


Changed Reference Type
https://tartarus.org/~simon/putty-snapshots/htmldoc/Chapter9.html#pageant-forward No Types Assigned


https://tartarus.org/~simon/putty-snapshots/htmldoc/Chapter9.html#pageant-forward Product


Changed Reference Type
https://tortoisegit.org No Types Assigned


https://tortoisegit.org Third Party Advisory


Changed Reference Type
https://twitter.com/CCBalert/status/1780229237569470549 No Types Assigned


https://twitter.com/CCBalert/status/1780229237569470549 Press/Media Coverage


Changed Reference Type
https://twitter.com/lambdafu/status/1779969509522133272 No Types Assigned


https://twitter.com/lambdafu/status/1779969509522133272 Press/Media Coverage


Changed Reference Type
https://winscp.net/eng/news.php No Types Assigned


https://winscp.net/eng/news.php Third Party Advisory


Changed Reference Type
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/putty-ssh-client-flaw-allows-recovery-of-cryptographic-private-keys/ No Types Assigned


https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/putty-ssh-client-flaw-allows-recovery-of-cryptographic-private-keys/ Press/Media Coverage


Changed Reference Type
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.html No Types Assigned


https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory


Changed Reference Type
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-p521-bias.html No Types Assigned


https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-p521-bias.html Vendor Advisory


Changed Reference Type
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/15/6 No Types Assigned


https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/15/6 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory


Changed Reference Type
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1c4wmoj/putty_vulnerability_affecting_v068_to_v08/ No Types Assigned


https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1c4wmoj/putty_vulnerability_affecting_v068_to_v08/ Press/Media Coverage


CVE Modified by MITRE 5/01/2024 2:15:23 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Reference
MITRE http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/15/6 [No types assigned]


CVE Modified by MITRE 4/25/2024 10:15:06 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Reference
MITRE https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PUOTQVGC4DISVHQGSPUYGXO6TLDK65LA/ [No types assigned]


Added Reference
MITRE https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WFDZBV7ZCAZ6AH3VCQ34SSY7L3J7VZXZ/ [No types assigned]


CVE Modified by MITRE 4/25/2024 2:15:59 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Reference
MITRE https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IZS3B37GNGWOOV7QU7B7JFK76U4TOP4V/ [No types assigned]


CVE Modified by MITRE 4/23/2024 2:15:14 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Reference
MITRE https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MMHILY2K7HQGQRHOC375KRRG2M6625RD/ [No types assigned]


CVE Modified by MITRE 4/17/2024 10:15:07 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Reference
MITRE https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WMJH7M663BVO3SY6MFAW2FAZWLLXAPRQ/ [No types assigned]


CVE Modified by MITRE 4/16/2024 7:15:08 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Reference
MITRE https://github.com/daedalus/BreakingECDSAwithLLL [No types assigned]


Added Reference
MITRE https://securityonline.info/cve-2024-31497-critical-putty-vulnerability-exposes-private-keys-immediate-action-required/ [No types assigned]


Added Reference
MITRE https://twitter.com/CCBalert/status/1780229237569470549 [No types assigned]


Added Reference
MITRE https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/putty-ssh-client-flaw-allows-recovery-of-cryptographic-private-keys/ [No types assigned]


CVE Modified by MITRE 4/15/2024 7:15:06 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Reference
MITRE https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1c4wmoj/putty_vulnerability_affecting_v068_to_v08/ [No types assigned]


CVE Modified by MITRE 4/15/2024 6:15:08 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Changed 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. One 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. Because SSH is sometimes used to authenticate to Git services, it is possible that this vulnerability could be leveraged for supply-chain attacks on software maintained in Git. It is also conceivable that signed messages from PuTTY or Pageant are readable by adversaries more easily in other scenarios, but none have yet been disclosed.


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.


Added Reference
MITRE https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2275183 [No types assigned]


Added Reference
MITRE https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1222864 [No types assigned]


Added Reference
MITRE https://docs.ccv.brown.edu/oscar/connecting-to-oscar/ssh/ssh-agent-forwarding/key-generation-and-agent-forwarding-with-putty [No types assigned]


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MITRE https://filezilla-project.org/versions.php [No types assigned]


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MITRE https://git.tartarus.org/?h=c193fe9848f50a88a4089aac647fecc31ae96d27&p=simon/putty.git [No types assigned]


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MITRE https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6p4c-r453-8743 [No types assigned]


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MITRE https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40044665 [No types assigned]


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MITRE https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-31497 [No types assigned]


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MITRE https://tartarus.org/~simon/putty-snapshots/htmldoc/Chapter9.html#pageant-forward [No types assigned]


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MITRE https://tortoisegit.org [No types assigned]


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MITRE https://twitter.com/lambdafu/status/1779969509522133272 [No types assigned]


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MITRE https://winscp.net/eng/news.php [No types assigned]


CVE Modified by MITRE 4/15/2024 5:15:07 PM

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MITRE https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/15/6 [No types assigned]


New CVE Received from MITRE 4/15/2024 4:15:11 PM

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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. One 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. Because SSH is sometimes used to authenticate to Git services, it is possible that this vulnerability could be leveraged for supply-chain attacks on software maintained in Git. It is also conceivable that signed messages from PuTTY or Pageant are readable by adversaries more easily in other scenarios, but none have yet been disclosed.


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MITRE https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.html [No types assigned]


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MITRE https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-p521-bias.html [No types assigned]


Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2024-31497
NVD Published Date:
04/15/2024
NVD Last Modified:
06/17/2026
Source:
MITRE