CVE-2004-0318: Platform Lsf

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 4.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Load Sharing Facility (LSF) 4.x, 5.x, and 6.x uses the LSF_EAUTH_UID environment variable, if it exists, instead of the real UID of the user, which could allow remote attackers within the local cluster to gain privileges.

Affected products

• Platform Lsf: version 4.0 only; version 4.2 only; version 5.0 only; version 5.1 only; version 6.0 only

Published 2004-11-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.