The tm_adopt function in lib/Libifl/tm.c in Terascale Open-Source Resource and Queue Manager (aka TORQUE Resource Manager) 5.0.x, 4.5.x, 4.2.x, and earlier does not validate that the owner of the process also owns the adopted session id, which allows remote authenticated users to kill arbitrary processes via a crafted executable.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2014-3684 is rated Moderate Risk (56.8/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.38%). Mandatory action: Review affected assets and schedule remediation.
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EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2026-04-09 | 2.53% | 2.38% | -0.15% |
| 2 | 2025-04-04 | 2.19% | 2.53% | +0.34% |
| 3 | 2025-03-30 | — | 2.19% | — |
Full EPSS history (8 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.8 | 2.0 | MEDIUM |
|
8.0 | 6.9 | [email protected] |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
ubuntu
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medium | CVE-2014-3684 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (torque), 13 status rows across 13 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, lucid, precise, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): DNE 4, not-affected 4, released 3, ignored 2. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-3684 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| adaptivecomputing | torque_resource_manager | 4.2.3 | cpe:2.3:a:adaptivecomputing:torque_resource_manager:4.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| adaptivecomputing | torque_resource_manager | 4.2.3.1 | cpe:2.3:a:adaptivecomputing:torque_resource_manager:4.2.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| adaptivecomputing | torque_resource_manager | 4.2.4 | cpe:2.3:a:adaptivecomputing:torque_resource_manager:4.2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| adaptivecomputing | torque_resource_manager | 4.2.4.1 | cpe:2.3:a:adaptivecomputing:torque_resource_manager:4.2.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| adaptivecomputing | torque_resource_manager | 4.2.5 | cpe:2.3:a:adaptivecomputing:torque_resource_manager:4.2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| adaptivecomputing | torque_resource_manager | 4.2.6 | cpe:2.3:a:adaptivecomputing:torque_resource_manager:4.2.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| adaptivecomputing | torque_resource_manager | 4.2.6.1 | cpe:2.3:a:adaptivecomputing:torque_resource_manager:4.2.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| adaptivecomputing | torque_resource_manager | 4.2.7 | cpe:2.3:a:adaptivecomputing:torque_resource_manager:4.2.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| adaptivecomputing | torque_resource_manager | 4.2.8 | cpe:2.3:a:adaptivecomputing:torque_resource_manager:4.2.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| adaptivecomputing | torque_resource_manager | 4.2.9 | cpe:2.3:a:adaptivecomputing:torque_resource_manager:4.2.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| adaptivecomputing | torque_resource_manager | 5.0.0-1_43d8f09a | cpe:2.3:a:adaptivecomputing:torque_resource_manager:5.0.0-1_43d8f09a:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |