High severity · published May 21, 2020
CVE-2020-12693
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
8.1
CVSS
2.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.3% · higher than 83% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0; 10.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
31; 32 · source: NVD
LE
Leap · Opensuse
15.1; 15.2 · source: NVD
SL
Slurm · Schedmd
19.05.0 before 19.05.7; 20.02.0 before 20.02.3 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-12693
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-12693
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
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KNL5E5SK4WP6M3DKU4IKW2NPQD2XTZ4Y/
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T3RGQB3EWDLOLTSPAJPPWZEPQK3O3AUH/
Mailing List
https://lists.schedmd.com/pipermail/slurm-announce/2020/000036.html
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