Vulnerability Details : 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.
Published 2006-11-08 20:07:00
Updated 2025-04-09 00:30:58
Source Red Hat, Inc.
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Products affected by CVE-2006-5794

Threat overview for CVE-2006-5794

Top countries where our scanners detected CVE-2006-5794
Top open port discovered on systems with this issue 22
IPs affected by CVE-2006-5794 175,190
Threat actors abusing to this issue? Yes
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-5794

EPSS FAQ
1.83%
Probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days EPSS Score History
~ 81 %
Percentile, the proportion of vulnerabilities that are scored at or less

CVSS scores for CVE-2006-5794

Base Score Base Severity CVSS Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Score Source First Seen
7.5
 HIGH AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
10.0
6.4
 NIST

Vendor statements for CVE-2006-5794

  • Red Hat 2009-09-24
    This issue did not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1. This issue was addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4 via https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0738.html . Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

References for CVE-2006-5794

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