CVE-2026-106589

Summary

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
OpenBSDOpenSSH0 <= 10.6affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-272: CWE-272 Least Privilege Violation

References