CVE-2026-106583

low

Published 2026-10-07 · Modified 2026-10-07

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CVSS v3

2.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

2.5

Description

In ssh in OpenSSH before 10.6, a $ or \ character can occur in a command-line username, leading to injection.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

27%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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References

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

CWEs

CWE-99

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.