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CVE-2019-15719 (GCVE-0-2019-15719)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-10-09 11:52 – Updated: 2024-08-05 00:56
VLAI
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.
Severity
8.0 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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