Bug 1848350 (CVE-2020-12693)

Summary: CVE-2020-12693 slurm: race condition allows a user to launch a process as an arbitrary user
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Marian Rehak <mrehak>
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Description Marian Rehak 2020-06-18 08:26:03 UTC
In the rare case where Message Aggregation is enabled, allows Authentication Bypass via an Alternate Path or Channel. A race condition allows a user to launch a process as an arbitrary user.

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https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=961406

Comment 1 Marian Rehak 2020-06-18 08:26:25 UTC
Created slurm tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1848351]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-06-18 11:20:30 UTC
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.