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CVE-2023-49938

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.2 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-12-14 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

An issue was discovered in SchedMD Slurm 22.05.x and 23.02.x. There is Incorrect Access Control: an attacker can modified their extended group list that is used with the sbcast subsystem, and open files with an unauthorized set of extended groups. The fixed versions are 22.05.11 and 23.02.7.

Affected products

• SchedMD Slurm: from 22.05.0 before 22.05.11; from 23.02.0 before 23.02.7 — fixed in 22.05.11, 23.02.7

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: SchedMD Slurm 22.05.11, 23.02.7. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/63FEDDYEE2WK7FHWBHKON3OZVQI56WSQ/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AYQS3LFGC4HE4WCW4L3NAA2I6FRIWMNO/
• https://lists.schedmd.com/pipermail/slurm-announce/2023/000103.html
• https://www.schedmd.com/security-archive.php
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/63FEDDYEE2WK7FHWBHKON3OZVQI56WSQ/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AYQS3LFGC4HE4WCW4L3NAA2I6FRIWMNO/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/63FEDDYEE2WK7FHWBHKON3OZVQI56WSQ/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AYQS3LFGC4HE4WCW4L3NAA2I6FRIWMNO/
• https://lists.schedmd.com/pipermail/slurm-announce/2023/000103.html
• https://www.schedmd.com/security-archive.php

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