CVE-2011-2907

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-08-15 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-287

Description

Terascale Open-Source Resource and Queue Manager (aka TORQUE Resource Manager) 3.0.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to bypass host-based authentication and submit arbitrary jobs via a modified PBS_O_HOST variable to the qsub program.

Affected products

Clusterresources Torque Resource Manager: through 3.0.1; 2.1.0, 2.1.0p11, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.1.6 (+39)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/45524
http://www.clusterresources.com/pipermail/torqueusers/2011-August/013194.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/11/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49119
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=713090
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/69138
https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/SVG:Advisory-SVG-2011-2296
http://secunia.com/advisories/45524
http://www.clusterresources.com/pipermail/torqueusers/2011-August/013194.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/11/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49119
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=713090

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