CVE-2006-5794: OpenBSD OpenSSH

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• OpenBSD OpenSSH: up to and including 4.4

Published 2006-11-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.