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.
Overview
- Severity
- Low (CVSS 2.9)
- CVSS Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Exploit Status
- Not Exploited
- Patch Tuesday
- 2026-Oct
- Released
- 2026-10-08
- EPSS Score
- 0.08% (percentile: 0.2%)
Affected Products (1)
Other
Revision History
- 2026-10-08: Information published.