CVE-2014-0748

CVE-2014-0748 affects Cray Aprun/Apinit on Cray supercomputers. The issue arises from the apinit service not validating the UID in launch messages received via aprun against the ALPS-authenticated UID, allowing a local user to escalate privileges to root on a compute node. Affected versions were ...

CVE-2014-0748

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...

Cray supercomputers privilege escalation

root privileges escalation via aprun/apinit...

[mwrlabs advisory][CVE-2014-0748] Cray Aprun/Apinit Privilege Escalation

Cray Aprun/Apinit Privilege Escalation ====================================== MWR have identified a vulnerability which allows users to escalate their privileges to root on Cray supercomputers. This advisory details the vulnerability and the patches which Cray customers can apply in order to...