CVE-2012-0814: OpenBSD OpenSSH

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 3.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The auth_parse_options function in auth-options.c in sshd in OpenSSH before 5.7 provides debug messages containing authorized_keys command options, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain potentially sensitive information by reading these messages, as demonstrated by the shared user account required by Gitolite. NOTE: this can cross privilege boundaries because a user account may intentionally have no shell or filesystem access, and therefore may have no supported way to read an authorized_keys file in its own home directory.

Affected products

• OpenBSD OpenSSH: up to and including 5.6; version 1.2 only; version 1.2.1 only; version 1.2.2 only; version 1.2.3 only; version 1.2.27 only; …

Published 2012-01-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.