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Vulnerability · Published Dec 14, 2023 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2023-49938

High 8.2

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in the slurm-wlm package (Debian). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.7% (higher than 55% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)8.2High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.7%top 44.9% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

An issue was discovered in SchedMD Slurm 22.05.x and 23.02.x. There is Incorrect Access Control: an attacker can modified their extended group list that is used with the sbcast subsystem, and open files with an unauthorized set of extended groups. The fixed versions are 22.05.11 and 23.02.7.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12slurm-wlm22.05.8-4+deb12u2DEBIAN-CVE-2023-49938
Debian:12slurm-wlm22.05.8-4+deb12u2DSA-5609-1
Debian:13slurm-wlm23.11.3-1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-49938
Debian:14slurm-wlm23.11.3-1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-49938

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a n/a n/a

References