CVE-2009-5136

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-10-11 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The policy definition evaluator in Condor before 7.4.2 does not properly handle attributes in a WANT_SUSPEND policy that evaluate to an UNDEFINED state, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (condor_startd exit) via a crafted job.

Affected products

Condor Project Condor: through 7.4.1; 7.4.0
RedHat Enterprise Mrg: 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.1.1, 1.1.2 (+2)

References

http://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/manual/v7.6/8_5Stable_Release.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0773.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=540545
https://htcondor-wiki.cs.wisc.edu/index.cgi/tktview?tn=1001
http://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/manual/v7.6/8_5Stable_Release.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0773.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=540545
https://htcondor-wiki.cs.wisc.edu/index.cgi/tktview?tn=1001

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