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TI-2020-16831 Aliases CVE-2020-27746GHSA-9682-j923-q58c

Slurm before 19.05.8 and 20.x before 20.02.6 exposes Sensitive Information to an…

Priority LOW 19CWE-362Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
High
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
Low · None · None
Fix status
No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA.

Summary

Slurm before 19.05.8 and 20.x before 20.02.6 exposes Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor because xauth for X11 magic cookies is affected by a race condition in a read operation on the /proc filesystem.

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.00834 57th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
——all versions—No fix listedCNA
  • — Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 2

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:schedmd:slurm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*before 19.05.8; 20.0.0 to before 20.02.6VulnerableSchedMD
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*10.0VulnerableDebian
  • cpe:2.3:a:schedmd:slurm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions before 19.05.8; 20.0.0 to before 20.02.6 Vulnerable ·SchedMD
  • cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 10.0 Vulnerable ·Debian

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

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Not affected: 1 product
  • Red Hat

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2020-27746
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-9682-j923-q58c

References

Patch 1

Advisory 1

Sources

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