🛡️ CVE-2024-48936 — slurm

🟡 CVSS 5.0 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-863 NVD
5.0
CVSS Score
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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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability low.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-48936 is classified as CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization. An authorisation check runs but reaches the wrong conclusion, permitting actions it should refuse.

Affected software

CVE-2024-48936 is recorded against 1 package.

  • slurm (fixed in 24.05.4)

Timeline and source

Published on 28 October 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

lists.schedmd.com
lists.schedmd.com
www.schedmd.com

CVE-2024-48936 on other distributions

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Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE CWE-863
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-10-28
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
slurm — 24.05.4

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