CVE-2018-10995

Publication date 30 May 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

SchedMD Slurm before 17.02.11 and 17.1x.x before 17.11.7 mishandles user names (aka user_name fields) and group ids (aka gid fields).

From the Ubuntu Security Team

It was discovered that SLurm mishandles user names and group ids. A local attacker could use this to gain administrative privileges.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
slurm-llnl	23.04 lunar	Not in release
	22.10 kinetic	Not in release
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not in release
	21.10 impish	Not in release
	21.04 hirsute	Not in release
	20.10 groovy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	19.10 eoan	Not in release
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 17.11.2-1ubuntu0.1~esm3
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 15.08.7-1ubuntu0.1~esm5
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 2.6.5-1ubuntu0.1~esm4

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Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.3 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N