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CVE-2020-27746

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.7 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-11-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-362

Description

Slurm before 19.05.8 and 20.x before 20.02.6 exposes Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor because xauth for X11 magic cookies is affected by a race condition in a read operation on the /proc filesystem.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 10.0
• SchedMD Slurm: before 19.05.8; from 20.0.0 before 20.02.6 — fixed in 19.05.8, 20.02.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: SchedMD Slurm 19.05.8, 20.02.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4841
• https://www.schedmd.com/news.php
• https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4841
• https://www.schedmd.com/news.php

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