Description
A vulnerability has been identified in Altair Grid Engine (All versions < V2026.0.0). Affected products do not properly validate environment variables when loading shared libraries, allowing path hijacking through malicious library substitution.
This could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary code with superuser privileges by manipulating the environment variable and placing a malicious library in the controlled path.
Published: 2025-11-11
Score: 8.5 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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History

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 19:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Wed, 12 Nov 2025 12:45:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Siemens
Siemens altair Grid Engine
Vendors & Products Siemens
Siemens altair Grid Engine

Tue, 11 Nov 2025 20:45:00 +0000

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Description A vulnerability has been identified in Altair Grid Engine (All versions < V2026.0.0). Affected products do not properly validate environment variables when loading shared libraries, allowing path hijacking through malicious library substitution. This could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary code with superuser privileges by manipulating the environment variable and placing a malicious library in the controlled path.
Weaknesses CWE-427
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


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Siemens Altair Grid Engine
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: siemens

Published:

Updated: 2025-11-12T18:41:52.671Z

Reserved: 2025-04-16T08:39:30.032Z

Link: CVE-2025-40763

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-11-12T18:41:47.778Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2025-11-11T21:15:37.893

Modified: 2026-04-15T00:35:42.020

Link: CVE-2025-40763

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2025-11-12T12:36:59Z

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