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CVE-2024-48936: schedmd slurm Incorrect Authorization

CVSS: 5.0v3.1MediumAnalyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2024-48936DEBIAN-CVE-2024-48936openSUSE-SU-2024:14450-1
Published 28-10-2024Last modified 30-10-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-48936 is a medium (CVSS 5.0) Incorrect Authorization vulnerability in schedmd slurm. EPSS estimates a 0.35% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 27.1% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
20/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.0/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.35%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 2 · Related 2
SUSE-FU-2025:0660-1SUSE-FU-2025:0661-1

Timeline

  1. 28-10-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 30-10-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.35%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

27%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.35% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
0.35%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • slurm-wlm< 24.05.4-1
Opensuse1 product
  • slurm&distro=openSUSE Tumbleweed< 24.05.4-1.1
Schedmd1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • slurm-wlmAll versions (No fix recorded)

4 vendors · 4 products

References

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