CVE-2026-106589: CWE-272 Least Privilege Violation in OpenBSD OpenSSH
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.
CVSS v3.1
Score 2.9low
Affected software
OpenBSD
OpenSSH
Weaknesses
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- mitre
- Date Reserved
- 2026-10-06T21:21:35.635Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
Threat ID: 6ac569462cdf04f656e0cf0c
Added to database: 10/06/2026, 21:33:58 UTC
Last updated: 10/06/2026, 21:33:58 UTC
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