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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-15719

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.

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CVE-2019-15719
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1 Nov 2026, 05:19 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2019-15719

core-osv · Original source

Published 9 Oct 2019, 12:15 UTC

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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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-15719",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2019-15719",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2019-15719",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
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      "metrics": [
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
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              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "33345beab9f57c6caf98efe1dbb2a0e0b70413fa"
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              ],
              "database_specific": {
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                      {
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                        "fixed": "19.1.3"
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          ],
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            "OpenHPC_20160515"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-15719.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:27.080416237Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://www.pbspro.org/",
        "https://www.hpcsec.com",
        "https://www.hpcsec.com/2019/10/08/cve-2019-15719/"
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            "extracted_events": [
              {
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                  {
                    "introduced": "13.0.0"
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                    "fixed": "13.0.412"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "14.0.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "fixed": "14.2.7"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "18.0.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "fixed": "18.2.5"
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                    "introduced": "19.2.0"
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                  }
                ],
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              }
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        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
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        "value": "CVE-2019-15719",
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    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 431748,
  "published_at": "2019-10-09T12:15:10.407+00:00"
}