Title: EGI SVG 'ADVISORY' [TLP:WHITE] CRITICAL risk Vulnerability
in SLURM's authentication handling CVE-2022-29500,
CVE-2022-29501, CVE-2022-29502 [EGI-SVG-CVE-2022-29500]
Date: 2022-05-05
Updated:
Affected software and risk
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CRITICAL risk vulnerability concerning SLURM
Package : SLURM
CVE ID : CVE-2022-29500, CVE-2022-29501, CVE-2022-29502
Bug ID :
CVSS Score :
SLURM has fixed 3 vulnerabilities, including one CVE-2022-29500 in the
authentication handling which may allow an unprivileged user to impersonate
the SlurmUser account. Access to the SlurmUser account can be used to
execute arbitrary processes as root. At least this first vulnerability
is considered 'CRITICAL'. [R 1]
Actions required/recommended
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Sites running SLURM are required to urgently install the updated version
All running resources MUST be either patched or have mitigation
in place or software removed by 2022-05-13 00:00 UTC
Sites failing to act and/or failing to respond to requests from the EGI CSIRT
team risk site suspension.
Component installation information
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See [R 2]
Mitigation
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None that EGI SVG is aware of.
Affected software details
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This is fixed in Slurm versions 21.08.8 and 20.11.9
Earlier versions are likely to be vulnerable.
More information
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Sites should see [R 1]
TLP and URL
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** WHITE information - Unlimited distribution
- see https://go.egi.eu/tlp for
distribution restrictions **
URL: https://advisories.egi.eu/Advisory-SVG-CVE-2022-29500
Minor updates may be made without re-distribution to the sites
Comments
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Comments or questions should be sent to svg-rat at mailman.egi.eu
If you find or become aware of another vulnerability which is relevant to EGI
you may report it by e-mail to
report-vulnerability at egi.eu
the EGI Software Vulnerability Group will take a look according to the
procedure defined in [R 99]
References
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[R 1] https://lists.schedmd.com/pipermail/slurm-announce/2022/000072.html
[R 2] https://www.schedmd.com/downloads.php
[R 99] https://documents.egi.eu/public/ShowDocument?docid=3867
Credit
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SVG was alerted to this vulnerability by Barbara Krasovec and by Jan Astalos
separately
Timeline
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Yyyy-mm-dd [EGI-SVG-2022-CVE-2022-29500]
2022-05-05 SVG alerted to this issue by Barbara Krasovec and by Jan Astalos
2022-05-05 Acknowledgement from the EGI SVG to the reporters
2022-05-05 Updated packages available
2022-05-05 Investigation of vulnerability and relevance to EGI carried out by (as appropriate)
2022-05-05 EGI SVG Risk Assessment completed
2022-05-05 Advisory sent to sites
Context
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This advisory has been prepared as part of the effort to fulfil EGI SVG's
purpose "To minimize the risk to the EGI infrastructure arising from software
vulnerabilities"
The risk is that assessed by the group, according to the EGI SVG issue handling
procedure [R 99] in the context of how the software is used in the EGI
infrastructure. It is the opinion of the group, we do not guarantee it to be
correct. The risk may also be higher or lower in other deployments depending on
how the software is used.
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This advisory is subject to the Creative commons licence
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
and the EGI https://www.egi.eu/ Software Vulnerability Group must be credited.
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On behalf of the EGI SVG,