CVE-2025-40760_CVE-2025-40760

5.5 / 10

MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Altair Grid Engine (All versions < V2026.0.0). Affected products do not properly handle error messages and discloses sensitive password hash information when processing user authentication requests.
This could allow a local attacker to extract password hashes for privileged accounts, which can then be subjected to offline brute-force attacks.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-40760

Source siemens

Published Nov 11, 2025 at 20:20

Affected Product

Vendor Siemens

Product Altair Grid Engine

Affected Versions Siemens Altair Grid Engine 0

CWE Classification

CWE-209

References

cert-portal.siemens.com /productcert/html/ssa-514895.html

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