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CRITICAL
CVE-2016-2563
PuTTY SCP Denial of Service/Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability
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.

INFO

Published Date :

April 7, 2016, 11:59 p.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 21, 2024, 2:48 a.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

5.9

Exploitability Score :

3.9
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2016-2563 has a 2 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2016-2563 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Simon_tatham putty
1 9bis kitty

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

None

C Perl 6 Perl ASP HTML Rich Text Format Visual Basic TeX Assembly Shell

Updated: 4 months, 1 week ago
1 stars 1 fork 1 watcher
Born at : June 13, 2019, 1:51 p.m. This repo has been linked 308 different CVEs too.

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Shell C Perl PHP TeX Python Assembly Makefile HTML XSLT

Updated: 2 weeks, 3 days ago
327 stars 71 fork 71 watcher
Born at : July 30, 2015, 10:36 a.m. This repo has been linked 309 different CVEs too.

Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.

The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2016-2563 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2016-2563 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Nov. 21, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00131.html
    Added Reference http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Mar/22
    Added Reference http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-pscp-sink-sscanf.html
    Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84296
    Added Reference http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035257
    Added Reference https://github.com/tintinweb/pub/tree/master/pocs/cve-2016-2563
    Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-01
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Dec. 03, 2016

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035257 [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Dec. 01, 2016

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00131.html [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 28, 2016

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84296 [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jun. 11, 2016

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-01
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Apr. 11, 2016

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CPE Configuration Configuration 1 OR *cpe:2.3:a:9bis:kitty:0.66.6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (and previous) *cpe:2.3:a:simon_tatham:putty:0.66:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (and previous)
    Added CVSS V2 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
    Added CVSS V3 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/tintinweb/pub/tree/master/pocs/cve-2016-2563 No Types Assigned https://github.com/tintinweb/pub/tree/master/pocs/cve-2016-2563 Advisory
    Changed Reference Type http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-pscp-sink-sscanf.html No Types Assigned http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-pscp-sink-sscanf.html Patch
    Added CWE CWE-119
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Apr. 08, 2016

    Action Type Old Value New Value
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

1.68 }} 0.07%

score

0.88208

percentile

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