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TI-2025-27225 Aliases CVE-2025-40763GHSA-3988-jj2m-p6m7

Uncontrolled search path in Siemens Altair Grid Engine

Priority LOW 38CWE-427Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Local
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Attack requirements
None
Impact type
Code execution
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · High
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-427.

Summary

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.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00148 3rd percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed Altair Grid Engine (Siemens): V2026.0.0

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Total

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
SiemensAltair Grid Enginebefore V2026.0.0V2026.0.0Patch availableCNA
  • Altair Grid Engine VendorSiemens Affected before V2026.0.0 Fixed in V2026.0.0 Patch available CNA

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA Altair Grid Engine (Siemens) Fixed in V2026.0.0

Fixed in the same release

Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.

  • Release ·

    Siemens Altair Grid Engine V2026.0.0

    2 records Highest priority Priority LOW 2 LOW

    Other records, highest priority first

    • TI-2025-27222 Information disclosure through error messages in Siemens Altair Grid EnginePriority LOW 29
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Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-40763
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-3988-jj2m-p6m7

References

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  • TI-2025-09686 Type confusion in Google Chrome KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2022-07142 Code injection in Spring Framework KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2021-19919 Apache Log4j2 JNDI features do not protect against attacker controlled LDAP and other JNDI related endpoints KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
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Sources

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