CVE-2006-5794

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.

7.5

CVSS

Severity: High

CVSS 2.0 •

EPSS 2.33% Top 20%

Vendor Advisory novell.com Vendor Advisory mandriva.com Vendor Advisory sgi.com Vendor Advisory openpkg.org Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory secunia.com Vendor Advisory secunia.com

Affected: n/a n/a

References

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

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2006-5794?: CVE-2006-5794 has been scored as a high severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2006-5794?: To fix CVE-2006-5794, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2006-5794 being actively exploited in the wild?: It is possible that CVE-2006-5794 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~2% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.