CVE-2006-7162: Putty

Low severity, CVSS 1.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

PuTTY 0.59 and earlier uses weak file permissions for (1) ppk files containing private keys generated by puttygen and (2) session logs created by putty, which allows local users to gain sensitive information by reading these files.

Affected products

• Putty Putty: up to and including 0.59

Published 2007-03-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.