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CVE-2020-12693

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-05-21 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Slurm 19.05.x before 19.05.7 and 20.02.x before 20.02.3, in the rare case where Message Aggregation is enabled, allows Authentication Bypass via an Alternate Path or Channel. A race condition allows a user to launch a process as an arbitrary user.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 9.0, 10.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 31, 32
• openSUSE Leap: 15.1, 15.2
• SchedMD Slurm: from 19.05.0 before 19.05.7; from 20.02.0 before 20.02.3 — fixed in 19.05.7, 20.02.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: SchedMD Slurm 19.05.7, 20.02.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00035.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00063.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00011.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KNL5E5SK4WP6M3DKU4IKW2NPQD2XTZ4Y/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T3RGQB3EWDLOLTSPAJPPWZEPQK3O3AUH/
• https://lists.schedmd.com/pipermail/slurm-announce/2020/000036.html
• https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4841
• https://www.schedmd.com/news.php?id=236
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00035.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00063.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00011.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KNL5E5SK4WP6M3DKU4IKW2NPQD2XTZ4Y/

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