EIP-2026-102773

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for EIP-2026-102773. PoCs published by Bartlomiej Balcerek.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit demonstrates a symbolic-link race condition vulnerability in Altair Engineering PBS Pro < 10.4, allowing local attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via insecure temporary file handling. The PoC compiles a C program to repeatedly create symlinks, targeting PBS Pro's spool directory to achieve file corruption or denial of service.

Description

Altair Engineering PBS Pro 10.x - 'pbs_mom' Insecure Temporary File Creation

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED

by Bartlomiej Balcerek · bashlocallinux

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/34267

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This exploit demonstrates a symbolic-link race condition vulnerability in Altair Engineering PBS Pro < 10.4, allowing local attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via insecure temporary file handling. The PoC compiles a C program to repeatedly create symlinks, targeting PBS Pro's spool directory to achieve file corruption or denial of service.

Classification

Working Poc 95%

Attack Type

Dos

Complexity

Moderate

Reliability

Racy

Target: Altair Engineering PBS Pro < 10.4

Auth required

Prerequisites: Local access to the submitting host · Ability to submit jobs via PBS Pro · GCC installed for compilation · SSH access to execution host

MITRE ATT&CK

T1068 - Exploitation for Privilege Escalation T1529 - System Shutdown/Reboot

devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

Altair Engineering PBS Pro 10.x - 'pbs_mom' Insecure Temporary File Creation

Exploitation Summary

Description

Exploits (1)

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