CVE-2025-40763

HIGH

7.8

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score7.8

SeverityHIGH

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

Attack VectorLOCAL

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredLOW

User InteractionNONE

Published11/11/2025

Last Modified11/12/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-427

References

https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-514895.html(productcert@siemens.com)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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