Insecure SPANK environment variable handling exists in SchedMD Slurm before 16.05.11, 17.x before 17.02.9, and 17.11.x before 17.11.0rc2, a…

published 2017-11-01 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-7018

cvss: 7.8; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.6%; EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 47%
public exploits: 0; none known

Insecure SPANK environment variable handling exists in SchedMD Slurm before 16.05.11, 17.x before 17.02.9, and 17.11.x before 17.11.0rc2, allowing privilege escalation to root during Prolog or Epilog execution.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1 distros 3

schedmd slurm 16.05.11, 17.2.09

ubuntu suse opensuse

slurm-llnl Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 15.08.7-1ubuntu0.1~esm3

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-15566

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pdsh SLE Module for HPC 12 2.34-7.32.1
slurm_20_11 SLE Module for HPC 12 20.11.4-3.5.1
pdsh_slurm_18_08 SLE Module for HPC 12 2.34-7.32.1
pdsh_slurm_20_02 SLE Module for HPC 12 2.34-7.32.1
pdsh_slurm_20_11 SLE Module for HPC 12 2.34-7.32.1
slurm_20_02 SLE Module for HPC 12 20.02.3-3.5.1
pdsh_slurm_18_08 SLE Module for HPC 12 2.34-7.26.2
pdsh_slurm_20_02 SLE Module for HPC 12 2.34-7.26.2

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2021:0773-1 SUSE-SU-2020:2607-1 SUSE-SU-2020:0443-1 SUSE-SU-2020:0434-1 SUSE-SU-2017:3311-1

slurm openSUSE Tumbleweed 21.08.1-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11389-1

Exploit prediction

0.58% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 47% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	7.8	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	7.2	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness

CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path

References

debian.org /security/2017/dsa-4023
vendor-advisory, third-party-advisory
schedmd.com /news.php?id=193#OPT_193
vendor-advisory
securityfocus.com /bid/101675
vdb-entry, third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2017-15566
NVD CVE-2017-15566

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Summary