CVE-2026-106589

Published: Oct 6, 2026Modified: Oct 7, 2026

2.9

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Exploitability: 1.4 / Impact: 1.4

Source: MITRE (Secondary)

Description

In sshd in OpenSSH through 10.6, in certain environments such as QNX 6 and SCO OpenServer 5, sshd-session can unexpectedly have root privileges. This is related to the GatewayPorts and StreamLocalForwarding configuration options, and lack of support for file-descriptor passing and unprivileged allocation of PTY devices.

Related CWEs

CWE-272

Least Privilege Violation

The elevated privilege level required to perform operations such as chroot() should be dropped immediately after the operation is performed.

References (1)

https://www.openssh.org/releasenotes.html#10.6

Source: cve@mitre.org

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