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Vulnerability · Published Oct 28, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2024-48936

Medium 5.0

In plain English

A medium-severity incorrect authorization 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 0.4% (higher than 29% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.0Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 71.2% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

SchedMD Slurm before 24.05.4 has Incorrect Authorization. A mistake in authentication handling in stepmgr could permit an attacker to execute processes under other users' jobs. This is limited to jobs explicitly running with --stepmgr, or on systems that have globally enabled stepmgr via SlurmctldParameters=enable_stepmgr in their configuration.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:13slurm-wlm24.05.4-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-48936
Debian:14slurm-wlm24.05.4-1DEBIAN-CVE-2024-48936

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a n/a n/a

Weakness: CWE-863 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

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