CVE-2025-43904

Publication date 16 January 2026

Last updated 7 May 2026

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

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.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
slurm-wlm	26.04 LTS resolute	Not affected
	25.10 questing	Not affected
	25.04 plucky	Ignored end of life, was needed
	24.10 oracular	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 23.11.4-1.2ubuntu5+esm1
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 21.08.5-2ubuntu1+esm2

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Patch details

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Package	Patch details
slurm-wlm	Upstream: a3d696b

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	4.2 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-8236-1
Slurm vulnerabilities
6 May 2026