CVE-2006-5794

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    CVE-2006-5794

    Published: 8 Nov 2006Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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: 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, http://secunia.com/advisories/22772, http://secunia.com/advisories/22773, 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://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.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4399, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4400, http://secunia.com/advisories/22771, http://secunia.com/advisories/22773, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20956, 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.openssh.org/txt/release-4.5, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/451100/100/0/threaded, http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-3069097-patch.html, http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-9986131-patch.html, 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

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High