High
Security advisory
Altair PBS Professional through 19.1.2 allows Privilege Escalation because an attacker can send a message directly to pbs_mom, which fails to properly authenticate the message. This results in code execution as an arbitrary user.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-15719
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:19 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Altair PBS Professional through 19.1.2 allows Privilege Escalation because an attacker can send a message directly to pbs_mom, which fails to properly authenticate the message. This results in code execution as an arbitrary user.
osv:CVE-2019-15719
Complete source record
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