NVIDIA Slurm contains a vulnerability where a user could deliberately alter the provided nodelist alongside the --distribution=arbitrary op…

published 2026-11-03 5 d ago modified 2026-11-03 5 d ago also EUVD-2026-116015

cvss: 5.3; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.1%; EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 2%
public exploits: 0; none known

NVIDIA Slurm contains a vulnerability where a user could deliberately alter the provided nodelist alongside the --distribution=arbitrary option to gain access to compute nodes outside of the current job allocation.

Patch / fix

distros 1

slurm-wlm Debian 13 24.11.5-4+deb13u1
slurm-wlm Debian 14 26.05.4-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-65165

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

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-65165 updated 2026-11-03 cvss 5.3

slurm: slurm: unauthorized access to compute nodes via nodelist manipulation

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

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 5 d ago (2026-11-03)

Exploit prediction

0.13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 2% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	5.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L

Affected products

NVIDIA Slurm

Classification

Weakness

CWE-129 Improper Validation of Array Index

References

Sources

CVE List CVE-2026-65165
NVD CVE-2026-65165

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Summary