View at Official debian advisory, NVD, CVE.org · CVE detail
Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.
CVE-2019-9896 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (putty), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.
In PuTTY versions before 0.71 on Windows, local attackers could hijack the application by putting a malicious help file in the same directory as the executable.