CVE-2024-48936

5.0 mediumEPSS 0.4%

Medium (5.0) in schedmd slurm. EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.0 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 28% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-863
Published: 2024-10-28
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

schedmd:slurm

References

https://lists.schedmd.com/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/slurm-announce%40lists.schedmd.com/message/44MFMN7R35YZFWTNO43R2754W5B5XUAI/
https://lists.schedmd.com/pipermail/slurm-announce/2024/date.html
https://www.schedmd.com/security-policy/

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