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CVE-2006-5794

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2006-11-08 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Openbsd Openssh

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References