CVE-2017-15566

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions SchedMD Slurm versions prior to 16.05.11 SchedMD Slurm versions 17.x prior to 17.02.9 SchedMD Slurm versions 17.11.x prior to 17.11.0rc2

Description The issue is related to insecure handling of the SPANK environment variable in Slurm. This can be exploited to escalate privileges to the root level when executing Prolog or Epilog scripts.

Recommendations For versions prior to 16.05.11, update to version 16.05.11 or later. For versions 17.x prior to 17.02.9, update to version 17.02.9 or later. For versions 17.11.x prior to 17.11.0rc2, update to version 17.11.0rc2 or later.