CVE-2024-31497

MEDIUMNVD 5.95.9
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

This medium-severity CVE scores 5.9 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 5.7% (93rd percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). No GitHub Security Advisory CVSS is on record for this CVE.

Triggered by: Headline CVSS from NVD CVSS v3
Sources: EPSS, NVD CVSS v3
Elevated

Also known asEUVD-2024-29377 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-6p4c-r453-8743 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

5.9EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • Public exploit or proof-of-concept code is available
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 5.7%CVSS: 5.9Exploit: Public PoCExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

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 v3
5.9
EG Score
5.9MEDIUMmedium confidence
EG Risk
43
EG Risk 43/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity59% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 5.9 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation40% × 40%
EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at every mission impact level.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
5.7%
EPSS %ILE
93rd
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (5.9): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 5.9 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
5.9 MEDIUMCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.NVD CVSS v3 · CVSS v3.0 or v3.1
EG Likelihood
5.7% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-25). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at every mission impact level.CISA BOD 26-04: 60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at every mission impact level.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

April 15, 2024

Last Modified

November 4, 2025

References (32)

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Affected Packages

(13 across 9 ecosystems)
Debian:11(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
filezilla3.52.2-3 ... 3.70.6-2 (54 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
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putty0.74-1, 0.74-1+deb11u1, 0.74-1+deb11u1~deb10u1, 0.74-1+deb11u1~deb10u2
  • every version up to 0.74-1+deb11u2: fixed in 0.74-1+deb11u2
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Debian:12(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
filezilla3.63.0-1 ... 3.71.0-1 (37 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
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putty0.78-2, 0.78-2+deb12u1
  • every version up to 0.78-2+deb12u2: fixed in 0.78-2+deb12u2
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Debian:13(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
filezilla—
  • every version up to 3.67.0-1: fixed in 3.67.0-1
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putty—
  • every version up to 0.81-1: fixed in 0.81-1
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Debian:14(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
filezilla—
  • every version up to 3.67.0-1: fixed in 3.67.0-1
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putty—
  • every version up to 0.81-1: fixed in 0.81-1
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Alpine:v3.16(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
putty—
  • 0.68 up to 0.81-r0: fixed in 0.81-r0
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Alpine:v3.17(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
putty—
  • 0.68 up to 0.81-r0: fixed in 0.81-r0
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Alpine:v3.18(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
putty—
  • 0.68 up to 0.81-r0: fixed in 0.81-r0
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Alpine:v3.19(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
putty—
  • 0.68 up to 0.81-r0: fixed in 0.81-r0
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Debian:10(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
putty0.70-6 ... 0.74-1 (8 versions)
  • every version up to 0.74-1+deb11u1~deb10u2: fixed in 0.74-1+deb11u1~deb10u2
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Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 7× in last 7d / 38× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 94 of 210 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 6 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 116 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

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  13. 2026-10-24 07:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-6p4c-r453-8743
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Publicly available exploits

(2 references)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (2 GitHub PoCs). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.

  • GitHub PoCHugoBond/CVE-2024-31497-POC
    Published May 10, 2024

    Proof Of Concept that exploits PuTTy CVE-2024-31497.

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCedutko/cve-2024-31497
    Published Apr 17, 2024
    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2024-31497?
CVE-2024-31497 is a medium-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on April 15, 2024. 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.…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2024-31497 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2024-31497 was published on April 15, 2024. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of November 4, 2025; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2024-31497 actively exploited?
CVE-2024-31497 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 5.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (93rd percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2024-31497?
CVE-2024-31497 has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.9 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2024-31497?
A fix for CVE-2024-31497 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory.

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