CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-40760

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.14%

3th percentile - higher than 3% of all known CVEs

Summary

A vulnerability has been identified in Altair Grid Engine (all versions < V2026.0.0). Affected products do not properly handle error messages and disclose sensitive password hash information when processing user authentication requests.

Risk Assessment

A local attacker could extract password hashes for privileged accounts, which can then be subjected to offline brute-force attacks, leading to account compromise.

Recommendation

Update Altair Grid Engine to version V2026.0.0 or later, which fixes this vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS