CVE-2025-40763
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:Nov 11, 2025
Last Modified:Apr 15, 2026
EPS:Nov 11, 2025
EPSS Score:0.00016
CVSS Score:7.8
Affected Products
Vendor
Product
Action
Vendor
Siemens
Product
Altair Grid Engine
Siemens
Altair Grid Engine
Exploits
No exploit reference
Common Weakness Enumeration
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
Low
High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Low
High
Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
None
Low
High
