Siemens Altair Grid Engine prior 2026.0.0 information exposure

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Siemens Altair Grid Engine and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation leads to information exposure. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-40760. An attack has to be approached locally. There is no exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Siemens Altair Grid Engine and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information exposure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-209. The product generates an error message that includes sensitive information about its environment, users, or associated data. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The advisory is shared at cert-portal.siemens.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-40760 since 04/16/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 2026.0.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at CNNVD (CNNVD-202511-995). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Information exposure
CWE: CWE-209 / CWE-200 / CWE-284
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Altair Grid Engine 2026.0.0

Timelineinfo

04/16/2025 CVE reserved
11/12/2025 +210 days Advisory disclosed
11/12/2025 +0 days VulDB entry created
11/12/2025 +0 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: siemens.com

Advisory: ssa-514895
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2025-40760 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2025-40760
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-332069
CNNVD: CNNVD-202511-995 - Siemens Altair Grid Engine 安全漏洞

Entryinfo

Created: 11/12/2025 07:29
Updated: 11/12/2025 16:09
Changes: 11/12/2025 07:29 (74), 11/12/2025 16:09 (6)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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