CVE-2025-40763
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Vulnerability report for CVE-2025-40763, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.
Publication date: 2025-11-11
Last updated on: 2025-11-11
Assigner: Siemens AG
Description
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.
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Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| siemens | altair_grid_engine | 2026.0.0 |
| siemens | altair_grid_engine | 2025.1.0 |
Helpful Resources
Exploitability
CWE
KEV
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-427 | The product uses a fixed or controlled search path to find resources, but one or more locations in that path can be under the control of unintended actors. |
