{"id":"CVE-2006-0883","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2006-0883","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T17:44:51.912Z","title":"OpenSSH on FreeBSD 5.3 and 5.4, when used with OpenPAM, does not properly handle when a forked child process terminates during PAM authentication, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (client connection refusal) by connecting…","description":"OpenSSH on FreeBSD 5.3 and 5.4, when used with OpenPAM, does not properly handle when a forked child process terminates during PAM authentication, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (client connection refusal) by connecting multiple times to the SSH server, waiting for the password prompt, then disconnecting.","published":"2006-03-07T02:02:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T22:21:28.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"secteam@freebsd.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P"},"cwe":["CWE-399"],"affected":["openbsd/openssh","freebsd/freebsd"],"epss":{"score":0.0192,"percentile":0.79761,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.92%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:09.openssh.asc","source":"secteam@freebsd.org"},{"url":"http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=839","source":"secteam@freebsd.org"},{"url":"http://securityreason.com/securityalert/520","source":"secteam@freebsd.org"},{"url":"http://securitytracker.com/id?1015706","tags":["Patch"],"source":"secteam@freebsd.org"},{"url":"http://www.osvdb.org/23797","source":"secteam@freebsd.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16892","tags":["Patch"],"source":"secteam@freebsd.org"},{"url":"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0805","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"secteam@freebsd.org"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25116","source":"secteam@freebsd.org"},{"url":"ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:09.openssh.asc","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=839","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://securityreason.com/securityalert/520","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://securitytracker.com/id?1015706","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.osvdb.org/23797","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16892","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0805","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25116","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-0883","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}