Unspecified vulnerability in the sshd Privilege Separation Monitor in OpenSSH before 4.5 causes weaker verification that authentication…

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.8% · top 13% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (28)

• 1017183 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=461854&group_id=69227 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 22932 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 22773 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-3069097-patch.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=461863&group_id=69227 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-766 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 22872 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 22772 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• ADV-2006-4399 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 23513 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 23680 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• SUSE-SR:2006:026 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• 24055 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 22771 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• openssh-separation-verificaton-weakness(30120) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-048.htm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• ADV-2006-4400 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 20061109 rPSA-2006-0207-1 openssh openssh-client openssh-server (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• 22778 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 22814 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11840 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
• 20956 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• MDKSA-2006:204 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
• http://www.openssh.org/txt/release-4.5 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• OpenPKG-SA-2006.032 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_OPENPKGx_transferred
• http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-9986131-patch.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• RHSA-2006:0738 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 20:04 UTC.