CVE-2020-12693

moderate-risk

Published 2020-05-21

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.

Do I need to act?

0.63% chance of exploitation

EPSS score — low exploit probability

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 8.1/10 High

NETWORK / HIGH complexity

Affected Products (7)

Slurm

Fedora

Leap

Debian Linux

Affected Vendors

Debian Fedoraproject Opensuse Schedmd

References (16)

Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00035.html

Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00063.html

Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00011.html

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedorapro...

Mailing List https://lists.schedmd.com/pipermail/slurm-announce/2020/000036.html

Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4841

Vendor Advisory https://www.schedmd.com/news.php?id=236

Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00035.html

Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00063.html

Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00011.html

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedorapro...

Mailing List https://lists.schedmd.com/pipermail/slurm-announce/2020/000036.html

Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4841

Vendor Advisory https://www.schedmd.com/news.php?id=236

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moderate-risk

Severity 24/34 · High

Exploitability 2/34 · Minimal

Exposure 14/34 · Moderate