CVE-2025-40763 | THREATINT

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 Reserved 2025-04-16 | Published 2025-11-11 | Updated 2025-11-12 | Assigner siemens

HIGH: 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

HIGH: 8.5CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Problem types

CWE-427: Uncontrolled Search Path Element

Product status

Default status

unknown

Any version before V2026.0.0

affected

References

cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-514895.html

cve.org (CVE-2025-40763)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-40763)

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