CVE-2026-106589

low

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.

References

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

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-94055

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-10-06

Updated: 2026-10-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 1.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 2.9

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

Severity: Low

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00082