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Incorrect Authorization

CVE-2024-48936

Medium
5/10

Summary

SchedMD Slurm has an Incorrect Authorization vulnerability. 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. This vulnerability affects slurm package versions prior to 24-05-4-1.

  • HIGH
  • NETWORK
  • LOW
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • LOW
  • LOW

CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization

Authorization is a security mechanism performed by an application to grant or deny access to the requested resources by verifying the privileges of the user. When an application lacks effective authorization mechanisms, it enables unauthorized users to gain unintended privileges and illegitimate access to resources. Such a vulnerability may result in exposure of sensitive information, denial of service, arbitrary code execution, and complete system takeover.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published