CVE-2006-5794

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Summary

CVECVE-2006-5794
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-11-08 20:07:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionUnspecified 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Openbsd Openssh All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Download Patch ESX-3069097 for VMware ESX Server 3.0.1 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vmware.com
OpenSSH Privilege Separation Key Signature Weakness af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Patch
patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20061201-01-P.asc af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 patches.sgi.com
Avaya Products OpenSSH Privilege Separation Monitor Weakness - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Security Announcement af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.novell.com
copssh Privilege Separation Monitor Weakness - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
VMWare ESX Server Multiple Vulnerabilities - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
rPath update for openssh, openssh-client, and openssh-server - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Download Patch ESX-9986131 for VMware ESX Server 3.0.1 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vmware.com
SourceForge.net: SysAdmin Tools from ITeF!x: Files af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 sourceforge.net
Red Hat update for openssh - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Mandriva update for openssh - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
OpenPKG Corporation: Security: Security Advisories af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openpkg.org
OpenSSH Privilege Separation Monitor Weakness - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
Page not found - SourceForge.net af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 sourceforge.net
Webmail - OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
Webmail - OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
OpenSSH Privilege Separation Monitor Validation Error May Cause the Monitor to Fail to Properly Control the Unprivileged Process - SecurityTracker af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securitytracker.com
www.openssh.org/txt/release-4.5 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openssh.org
ASA-2007-048 (RHSA-2006-0738) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 support.avaya.com
cwRsync OpenSSL Vulnerabilities and OpenSSH Weakness - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com
SUSE Update for Multiple Packages - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
SGI Advanced Linux Environment Multiple Updates - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Advisories - Mandriva Linux af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-766 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 issues.rpath.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2009-09-24Joshua BressersThis issue did not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1. This issue was addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4 via https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0738.html . Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

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