Summary
This host has SLURM (Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management) installed and is prone to Privilege Escalation vulnerability.
Impact
This can be exploited by malicious SLURM local users to gain escalated privileges.
Impact Level: Application/System
Solution
Upgrade to SLURM version 1.3.14 or later
https://computing.llnl.gov/linux/slurm/download.html
Insight
- Error within the sbcast implementation when establishing supplemental groups, which can be exploited to e.g. access files with the supplemental group privileges of the slurmd daemon.
- Error in slurmctld daemon is not properly dropping supplemental groups when handling the 'strigger' command, which can be exploited to e.g. access files with the supplemental group privileges of the slurmctld daemon.
Affected
SLURM all versions of 1.2 and 1.3 prior to 1.3.15 on Linux (Debian)
References
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-2084 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.2
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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