CVE Catalog

CVE-2017-15566

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

In SchedMD Slurm versions before 16.05.11, 17.x before 17.02.9, and 17.11.x before 17.11.0rc2, insecure handling of the SPANK environment variable allows privilege escalation to root during Prolog or Epilog execution.

Risk Assessment

Organizations may be exposed to unauthorized access to the system with administrator privileges, potentially leading to serious security breaches.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update SchedMD Slurm to a version that is not vulnerable to this issue to minimize the risk of privilege escalation.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Insecure SPANK environment variable handling exists in SchedMD Slurm before 16.05.11, 17.x before 17.02.9, and 17.11.x before 17.11.0rc2, allowing privilege escalation to root during Prolog or Epilog execution.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS