What is CVE-2024-48936?

CVE-2024-48936 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Schedmd Slurm, classified under Incorrect Authorization. CVSS score: 5.0/10. Published 2024-10-28.

How severe is CVE-2024-48936?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.0 out of 10.

Auth bypass in Schedmd Slurm

CVE-2024-48936

SchedMD Slurm before 24.05.4 has Incorrect Authorization. A mistake in authentication handling in stepmgr could permit an attacker to execute processes under other users' jobs. This is limited to jobs explicitly running with --stepmgr, or on systems that have globally enabled stepmgr via SlurmctldParameters=enable_stepmgr in their configuration.

Vulnerability class: Broken Access Control

Published 2024-10-28 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (26.1th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 26th percentile — 26.1% 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

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-863 — Incorrect Authorization

References

www.schedmd.com/security-policy/ (Product)
lists.schedmd.com/pipermail/slurm-announce/2024/date.html (Mailing List)
lists.schedmd.com/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/slurm-announce@lists.schedmd.com/mes… (Mailing List)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-48936?: CVE-2024-48936 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Schedmd Slurm, classified under Incorrect Authorization. CVSS score: 5.0/10. Published 2024-10-28.
How severe is CVE-2024-48936?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.0 out of 10.