CVE-2019-17068: Opensuse Leap

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

PuTTY before 0.73 mishandles the "bracketed paste mode" protection mechanism, which may allow a session to be affected by malicious clipboard content.

Affected products

• Opensuse Leap: version 15.0 only; version 15.1 only
• Putty Putty: before 0.73 (fixed in 0.73)

Published 2019-10-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.