🛡️ CVE-2025-40760

🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-209 NVD
5.5
CVSS Score
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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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-40760 is classified as CWE-209: Information Exposure Through an Error Message. Error output includes internal detail such as paths, queries or stack traces that assists an attacker.

Affected software

CVE-2025-40760 is recorded against 1 package.

  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 11 November 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

cert-portal.siemens.com

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-209
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-11-11
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
unknown — —

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