What is CVE-2019-19728?

CVE-2019-19728 is a high-severity vulnerability in Schedmd Slurm, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2020-01-13.

How severe is CVE-2019-19728?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Privilege escalation in Schedmd Slurm

CVE-2019-19728

SchedMD Slurm before 18.08.9 and 19.x before 19.05.5 executes srun --uid with incorrect privileges.

Vulnerability class: Privilege Escalation

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

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.013 (69.3th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 69th percentile — 69.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.013 · newest: 0.013 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Schedmd Slurm
Debian Linux — versions 10.0
openSUSE Leap — versions 15.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-269 — Improper Privilege Management

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, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4841 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-19728?: CVE-2019-19728 is a high-severity vulnerability in Schedmd Slurm, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2020-01-13.
How severe is CVE-2019-19728?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.