{"id":"CVE-2026-106589","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-106589","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T22:47:13.515Z","title":"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.","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.","published":"2026-10-06T22:17:07.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-07T16:17:45.000Z","status":"Awaiting Analysis","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":2.9,"severity":"LOW","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-272"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00082,"percentile":0.00195,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[{"date":"2026-10-07","score":0.00082,"percentile":0.0018}]},"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 (0.08%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-10-06T22:17:07.000Z","detail":{"score":"2.9","severity":"LOW","publishedAt":"2026-10-06T22:17:06.920Z"},"summary":"New CVE, low severity (CVSS 2.9)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://www.openssh.org/releasenotes.html#10.6","source":"cve@mitre.org"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-106589","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."}