CVE-2006-5794
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- EPSS score
- 2.8% (87th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-5778)
- Published
- November 8, 2006
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-5778 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- openbsd / openssh
References
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20061201-01-P.asc
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0738.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22771(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22772
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22773(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22778
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22814
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22872
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22932
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23513
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23680
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24055
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017183
- http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=461854&group_id=69227
- http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=461863&group_id=69227
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-048.htm
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:204
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_26_sr.html
- http://www.openpkg.org/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.032-openssh.html
- http://www.openssh.org/txt/release-4.5
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/451100/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20956(Patch)
- http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-3069097-patch.html
- http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-9986131-patch.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4399
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4400
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30120
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-766
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11840
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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