SUSE update for slurm

Published: 2021-05-27

Risk	Medium
Patch available	YES
Number of vulnerabilities	1
CVE-ID	CVE-2021-31215
CWE-ID	CWE-264
Exploitation vector	Network
Public exploit	N/A
Vulnerable software Subscribe	SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for HPC Operating systems & Components / Operating system slurm-torque-debuginfo Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component slurm-torque Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component slurm-sql-debuginfo Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component slurm-sql Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component slurm-slurmdbd-debuginfo Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component slurm-slurmdbd Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component slurm-slurmdb-direct Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component slurm-sched-wiki Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component slurm-plugins-debuginfo Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component slurm-plugins Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component slurm-pam_slurm-debuginfo Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component slurm-pam_slurm Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component slurm-munge-debuginfo Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component slurm-munge Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component slurm-lua-debuginfo Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component slurm-lua Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component slurm-doc Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component slurm-devel Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component slurm-debugsource Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component slurm-debuginfo Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component slurm-config Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component slurm-auth-none-debuginfo Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component slurm-auth-none Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component slurm Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component perl-slurm-debuginfo Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component perl-slurm Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component libslurm31-debuginfo Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component libslurm31 Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component libpmi0-debuginfo Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component libpmi0 Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component
Vendor	SUSE

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Security restrictions bypass

EUVDB-ID: #VU53685

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 7.7 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2021-31215

CWE-ID: CWE-264 - Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to improper environment handling in Slurm. A remote user can run arbitrary commands as SlurmUser if the installation uses a PrologSlurmctld and/or EpilogSlurmctld script.

Mitigation

Update the affected package slurm to the latest version.

Vulnerable software versions

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for HPC: 12

slurm-torque-debuginfo: before 17.02.11-6.50.1

slurm-torque: before 17.02.11-6.50.1

slurm-sql-debuginfo: before 17.02.11-6.50.1

slurm-sql: before 17.02.11-6.50.1

slurm-slurmdbd-debuginfo: before 17.02.11-6.50.1

slurm-slurmdbd: before 17.02.11-6.50.1

slurm-slurmdb-direct: before 17.02.11-6.50.1

slurm-sched-wiki: before 17.02.11-6.50.1

slurm-plugins-debuginfo: before 17.02.11-6.50.1

slurm-plugins: before 17.02.11-6.50.1

slurm-pam_slurm-debuginfo: before 17.02.11-6.50.1

slurm-pam_slurm: before 17.02.11-6.50.1

slurm-munge-debuginfo: before 17.02.11-6.50.1

slurm-munge: before 17.02.11-6.50.1

slurm-lua-debuginfo: before 17.02.11-6.50.1

slurm-lua: before 17.02.11-6.50.1

slurm-doc: before 17.02.11-6.50.1

slurm-devel: before 17.02.11-6.50.1

slurm-debugsource: before 17.02.11-6.50.1

slurm-debuginfo: before 17.02.11-6.50.1

slurm-config: before 17.02.11-6.50.1

slurm-auth-none-debuginfo: before 17.02.11-6.50.1

slurm-auth-none: before 17.02.11-6.50.1

slurm: before 17.02.11-6.50.1

perl-slurm-debuginfo: before 17.02.11-6.50.1

perl-slurm: before 17.02.11-6.50.1

libslurm31-debuginfo: before 17.02.11-6.50.1

libslurm31: before 17.02.11-6.50.1

libpmi0-debuginfo: before 17.02.11-6.50.1

libpmi0: before 17.02.11-6.50.1

CPE2.3

cpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux_enterprise_module_for_hpc:12:*:*:*:*:*:*:

External links

http://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2021/suse-su-20211787-1/

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote authenticated user via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.