CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-5794

7.5 HIGH Published 2006-11-08 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-11-08
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the sshd Privilege Separation Monitor in OpenSSH before 4.5 causes weaker verification that authentication has been successful, which might allow attackers to bypass authentication. NOTE: as of 20061108, it is believed that this issue is only exploitable by leveraging vulnerabilities in the unprivileged process, which are not known to exist.

Affected configurations

• openbsd openssh (<= 4.4)

References