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
EPSS: 0.008 (53.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
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.
Affected products
- Schedmd Slurm
- Debian Debian_linux — versions 10.0
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- cve@mitre.org (Patch, x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN)
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.