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Fencer Vulns
high 8.8

CVE-2022-29501 json

SchedMD Slurm 21.08.x through 20.11.x has Incorrect Access Control that leads to Escalation of Privileges and code execution.

published 2022-05-05 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-33838

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.5%
EPSS 3.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 89%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

SchedMD Slurm 21.08.x through 20.11.x has Incorrect Access Control that leads to Escalation of Privileges and code execution.

Patch / fix

  • schedmd slurm 20.11.9, 21.08.08
  • slurm-wlm Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 21.08.8.2-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-29501

  • slurm-wlm Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS 21.08.5-2ubuntu1+esm1
  • slurm-llnl Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 2.6.5-1ubuntu0.1~esm7
  • slurm-llnl Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 15.08.7-1ubuntu0.1~esm6
  • slurm-llnl Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 17.11.2-1ubuntu0.1~esm5
  • slurm-llnl Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS 19.05.5-1ubuntu0.1~esm2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-29501

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • slurm_22_05 SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP2-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP2-ESPOS 22.05.5-150200.5.3.2
  • pdsh SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP2-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP2-ESPOS 2.34-150200.4.6.2
  • pdsh_slurm_20_11 openSUSE Leap 15.4, openSUSE Leap 15.3 2.34-150200.4.6.2
  • pdsh_slurm_22_05 SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP2-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP2-ESPOS 2.34-150200.4.6.2
  • slurm_22_05 SLE Module for HPC 15 SP4, SLE Module for HPC 15 SP3, openSUSE Leap 15.4 +1 more 22.05.5-150300.7.3.2
  • pdsh SLE Module for HPC 15 SP4, SLE Module for HPC 15 SP3, openSUSE Leap 15.4 +1 more 2.34-150300.35.2
  • pdsh_slurm_22_05 SLE Module for HPC 15 SP4, SLE Module for HPC 15 SP3, openSUSE Leap 15.4 +1 more 2.34-150300.35.2
  • slurm_22_05 SLE Module for HPC 12 22.05.5-3.3.5

suse advisories SUSE-RU-2022:4362-1SUSE-RU-2022:4361-1SUSE-RU-2022:4348-1SUSE-RU-2022:4297-1SUSE-SU-2022:3535-1SUSE-SU-2022:3497-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-29501 updated

slurm: usage leads to unprivileged access to send arbritary unix socket as root

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.52% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 9.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

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