THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2004-1008
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2004-1008

Putty vulnerability

CVSS
10.0
EPSS
7.4%
EPSS pct
94th
Exploited
No known
Integer signedness error in the ssh2_rdpkt function in PuTTY before 0.56 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a SSH2_MSG_DEBUG packet with a modified stringlen parameter, which leads to a buffer overflow.
Affected vendor
Putty
Affected product
Putty
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Published
2005-01-10

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 7.4% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

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  • Confirm whether Putty Putty is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2004-1008.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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