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Thu, November 13, 2025

Siemens Altair Grid Engine Vulnerabilities Advisory Notice

⚠️ Siemens Altair Grid Engine contains multiple local vulnerabilities that can enable privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution with superuser rights. One issue discloses password hashes in error messages (CWE-209, CVE-2025-40760, CVSS 5.5) and another allows library path hijacking via uncontrolled environment variables (CWE-427, CVE-2025-40763, CVSS 7.8). Siemens and CISA recommend updating to V2026.0.0 and applying mitigations such as removing setuid bits from affected binaries where appropriate.

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