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CVE-2016-10030 json

The _prolog_error function in slurmd/req.c in Slurm before 15.08.13, 16.x before 16.05.7, and 17.x before 17.02.0-pre4 has a vulnerability…

published 2017-01-05 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-1227

cvss
8.1
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.5%
EPSS 2.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 85%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The _prolog_error function in slurmd/req.c in Slurm before 15.08.13, 16.x before 16.05.7, and 17.x before 17.02.0-pre4 has a vulnerability in how the slurmd daemon informs users of a Prolog failure on a compute node. That vulnerability could allow a user to assume control of an arbitrary file on the system. Any exploitation of this is dependent on the user being able to cause or anticipate the failure (non-zero return code) of a Prolog script that their job would run on. This issue affects all Slurm versions from 0.6.0 (September 2005) to present. Workarounds to prevent exploitation of this are to either disable your Prolog script, or modify it such that it always returns 0 ("success") and adjust it to set the node as down using scontrol instead of relying on the slurmd to handle that automatically. If you do not have a Prolog set you are unaffected by this issue.

Patch / fix

  • slurm-llnl Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 2.6.5-1ubuntu0.1~esm6
  • slurm-llnl Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 15.08.7-1ubuntu0.1~esm3

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10030

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

  • 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-2021:0773-1SUSE-SU-2020:2607-1SUSE-SU-2020:0443-1SUSE-SU-2020:0434-1

  • slurm openSUSE Tumbleweed 21.08.1-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11389-1

Exploit prediction

2.53% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 85% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.6 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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Sources

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