CVE-2026-106589

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 2.9 Low

Status

Awaiting Analysis - cve@mitre.org

Published

2026-10-06

Last modified

2026-10-07

Weaknesses

CWE-272

Affected products

• Openssh (Openbsd)

References

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