CVE-2006-5794

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.

CVE ID:

CVE-2006-5794

Published:

2006-11-08

Modified:

2026-04-23

CVSS Score:

7.5

Severity:

HIGH

Vector:

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