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CVE-2006-5794
Unspecified vulnerability in the sshd Privilege Separation Monitor in OpenSSH before 4.5 causes weaker verification that authentication…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 3.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 12% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
Published
- 18 years later
· 18 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.2% · top 12% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References28
- 1017183 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=461854&group_id=69227 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 22932 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 22773 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-3069097-patch.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=461863&group_id=69227 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-766 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 22872 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 22772 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2006-4399 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 23513 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 23680 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2006:026 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 24055 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 22771 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- openssh-separation-verificaton-weakness(30120) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-048.htm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ADV-2006-4400 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 20061109 rPSA-2006-0207-1 openssh openssh-client openssh-server (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 22778 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 22814 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11840 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 20956 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- MDKSA-2006:204 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- http://www.openssh.org/txt/release-4.5 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- OpenPKG-SA-2006.032 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_OPENPKGx_transferred
- http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-9986131-patch.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2006:0738 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2006-5778 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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