CVE-2023-49935

Summary

CVE-2023-49935 is a vulnerability affecting SchedMD Slurm versions 23.02.x and 23.11.x. The issue involves an Incorrect Access Control problem, where an attacker can bypass message integrity checks in the slurmd process. By doing so, they can reuse root-level authentication tokens, which normally are protected by RPC message hashes, to gain unauthorized access. This could potentially lead to undesired MUNGE credential reuse. The affected versions have been patched with the release of 23.02.7 and 23.11.1.

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