CVE-2019-7690 describes a critical vulnerability in MobaTek MobaXterm Personal Edition v11.1 Build 3860, where SSH private keys and their passwords remain accessible in process memory even after a session ends, specifically impacting password-protected keys used for passwordless authentication. This flaw carries a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), indicating a severe risk due to its network-based attack vector, low attack complexity, and high potential for confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) is currently unavailable, though the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
11.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mobatek:mobaxterm:11.1:3860:*:*:personal:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.