CVE Database · CVE-2016-2563
CVSS v3.1
N/A
EPSS
34.22%
Published
Apr 7, 2016
Modified
May 6, 2026
Public PoC / Exploit (2)
All weaponized →Links to public security research (Exploit-DB, Nuclei, Trickest, GitHub) for defensive use only.
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.
Weaknesses (CWE)
Affected Products (2)
References (14)
