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CVE-2006-5794 Details

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
NVD-CWE-Other	Weakness Not in a Standard CWE Category	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
openbsd openssh	<= 4.4
CPE cpe:2.3:a:openbsd:openssh:::::::: Remediation No remediation found in references.

Change History

8 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 16, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Apr 23, 2026	Status Change	[email protected]
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Oct 17, 2018	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Oct 11, 2017	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Jul 20, 2017	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Nov 9, 2006	Initial Analysis	[email protected]