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CVE-2026-106589 affecting package openssh 9.8p1-10
Type: advisorySources: OSV
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.
- Products
- openssh
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-106589
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 30 Oct 2026, 14:05 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
CVE-2026-106589 affecting package openssh 9.8p1-10
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 6 Oct 2026, 22:17 UTC
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.
osv:AZL-106697
openssh
Fixed versions: Not specified
Complete source record
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