CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-0748
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-12-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
apinit on Cray devices with CLE before 4.2.UP02 and 5.x before 5.1.UP00 does not use alpsauth data to validate the UID in a launch message, which allows local users to gain privileges via a modified aprun program, aka ID FN5912.
Affected configurations
• cray cray linux environment (<= 4.2)
• cray cray linux environment 5.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- https://labs.mwrinfosecurity.com/advisories/2014/01/31/cray-aprunapinit-privilege-escalation/ labs.mwrinfosecurity.com
- https://labs.mwrinfosecurity.com/advisories/2014/01/31/cray-aprunapinit-privilege-escalation/ labs.mwrinfosecurity.com