CVE-2006-5794

OpenSSH privilege separation flaw

Published Nov 8, 2006 CVSS 2.0 · 7.5 High EPSS 3.2% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2006-5778 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.
References
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ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20061201-01-P.asc cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0738.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/22771 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/22772 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/22773 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/22778 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/22814 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/22872 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/22932 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/23513 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/23680 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24055 cve-icon cve-icon
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017183 cve-icon cve-icon
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=461854&group_id=69227 cve-icon cve-icon
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=461863&group_id=69227 cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-048.htm cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:204 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_26_sr.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.openpkg.org/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.032-openssh.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.openssh.org/txt/release-4.5 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/451100/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20956 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-3069097-patch.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-9986131-patch.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4399 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4400 cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30120 cve-icon cve-icon
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-766 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-5794 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11840 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-5794 cve-icon
History

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
redhat
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 8:04 PM
Reserved
Nov 8, 2006, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Nov 8, 2006, 8:07 PM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 10:31 PM
Severity
Low
Public date
Nov 7, 2006, 12:00 AM