Vulnerability in Schedmd Slurm
CVE-2020-27746
Slurm before 19.05.8 and 20.x before 20.02.6 exposes Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor because xauth for X11 magic cookies is affected by a race condition in a read operation on the /proc filesystem.
Vulnerability class: Race Condition
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 3.7 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.008 (56.0th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 56th percentile — 56.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.008 · newest: 0.008 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Schedmd Slurm
- Debian Linux — versions 10.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- www.schedmd.com/news.php (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4841 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2020-27746?
- CVE-2020-27746 is a low-severity vulnerability in Schedmd Slurm, classified under Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (Race Condition). CVSS score: 3.7/10. Published 2020-11-27.
- How severe is CVE-2020-27746?
- Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.7 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2020-27746 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.