What is CVE-2019-19727?

CVE-2019-19727 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Schedmd Slurm, classified under Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2020-01-13.

How severe is CVE-2019-19727?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Schedmd Slurm

CVE-2019-19727

SchedMD Slurm before 18.08.9 and 19.x before 19.05.5 has weak slurmdbd.conf permissions.

Published 2020-01-13 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (26.5th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 27th percentile — 26.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Schedmd Slurm
openSUSE Leap — versions 15.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-732 — Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

References

lists.schedmd.com/pipermail/slurm-announce/ (Mailing List, Vendor Advisory)
bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
www.schedmd.com/news.php (Vendor Advisory)
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00038.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-19727?: CVE-2019-19727 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Schedmd Slurm, classified under Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2020-01-13.
How severe is CVE-2019-19727?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.