{
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "id": "GHSA-vmq2-m9cv-qwqx",
  "modified": "2022-05-24T19:02:54Z",
  "published": "2022-05-24T19:02:54Z",
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2021-33500"
  ],
  "details": "PuTTY before 0.75 on Windows allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (Windows GUI hang) by telling the PuTTY window to change its title repeatedly at high speed, which results in many SetWindowTextA or SetWindowTextW calls. NOTE: the same attack methodology may affect some OS-level GUIs on Linux or other platforms for similar reasons.",
  "severity": [],
  "affected": [],
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-33500"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://docs.ssh-mitm.at/puttydos.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/ssh-mitm/ssh-mitm-plugins/blob/main/ssh_mitm_plugins/ssh/putty_dos.py"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.html"
    }
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [],
    "severity": "HIGH",
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2021-05-21T20:15:00Z"
  }
}