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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.2

CVE-2025-43904 json

In SchedMD Slurm before 24.11.5, 24.05.8, and 23.11.11, the accounting system can allow a Coordinator to promote a user to Administrator.

published 2026-01-16 9 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2026-2931

cvss
4.2
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 17%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In SchedMD Slurm before 24.11.5, 24.05.8, and 23.11.11, the accounting system can allow a Coordinator to promote a user to Administrator.

Patch / fix

  • SchedMD Slurm 23.11.11, 24.05.8, 24.11.5
  • slurm-wlm Debian 12 22.05.8-4+deb12u3
  • slurm-wlm Debian 14, Debian 13 24.11.5-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-43904

  • slurm-wlm Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS 21.08.5-2ubuntu1+esm2
  • slurm-wlm Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS 23.11.4-1.2ubuntu5+esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2025-43904

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  • slurm SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP7, SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP6, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS +1 more 20.11.9-150400.3.6.2
  • slurm_24_11 SLE Module for HPC 15 SP6, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP5-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP5-ESPOS +4 more 24.11.5-150300.7.8.1
  • slurm SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP6, SLE Module for HPC 15 SP7, SLE Module for HPC 15 SP6 +3 more 23.02.7-150500.5.18.1
  • slurm_23_02 SLE Module for HPC 15 SP7, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-ESPOS +2 more 23.02.7-150300.7.20.1
  • slurm_24_11 SLE Module for HPC 12 24.11.5-3.8.1
  • slurm_22_05 SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-ESPOS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS +1 more 22.05.11-150300.7.12.1
  • slurm_22_05 SLE Module for HPC 12 22.05.11-3.12.1
  • slurm_20_11 SLE Module for HPC 12 20.11.9-3.22.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:02779-1SUSE-SU-2025:01761-1SUSE-SU-2025:01760-1SUSE-SU-2025:01759-1SUSE-SU-2025:01758-1SUSE-SU-2025:01757-1

  • slurm openSUSE Tumbleweed 24.11.5-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2025:15165-1

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-2025-43904 updated cvss 8.8

slurm: accounting system can allow a coordinator to promote a user to administrator

  • 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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
9 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.25% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 17% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 4.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected products

  • SchedMD Slurm

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.