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CVE-2014-0748

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-12-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

apinit on Cray devices with CLE before 4.2.UP02 and 5.x before 5.1.UP00 does not use alpsauth data to validate the UID in a launch message, which allows local users to gain privileges via a modified aprun program, aka ID FN5912.

Affected products

• Cray Linux Environment: through 4.2; 5.1

References

• https://labs.mwrinfosecurity.com/advisories/2014/01/31/cray-aprunapinit-privilege-escalation/
• https://labs.mwrinfosecurity.com/advisories/2014/01/31/cray-aprunapinit-privilege-escalation/

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