Improper Privilege Management Affecting schedmd/slurm package, versions [,23.11.2.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.37% (29th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SCHEDMDSLURM-6156685
  • published15 Jan 2024
  • disclosed15 Jan 2024
  • creditMichael Orlitzky

Introduced: 15 Jan 2024

CVE-2020-36770  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade schedmd/slurm to version 23.11.2.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Privilege Management due to improper use of the pkg_postinst function. An attacker can gain ownership of root-owned files by exploiting the function's unnecessary invocation of chown.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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