CVE-2025-40763

HIGH

Altair Grid Engine < V2026.0.0 - Code Injection

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0002
EPSS Percentile 4.4%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-427
Status published
Products (1)
Siemens/Altair Grid Engine < V2026.0.0
Published Nov 11, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026