Improper Privilege Management Affecting schedmd/slurm package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.15% (53rd 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?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

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.

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