CVE-2025-43904 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

In SchedMD Slurm before 24.11.5, 24.05.8, and 23.11.11, the accounting system can allow a Coordinator to promote a user to Administrator.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0002.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Schedmd Subscribe	Slurm Subscribe

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Debian DSA	DSA-5961-1	slurm-wlm security update

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://lists.schedmd.com/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/slurm-announce@lists.schedmd.com/message/B73QHKW6TKE2T5KDWVPIWNE5H4KWX667/
https://www.schedmd.com/security-policy/

History

Wed, 21 Jan 2026 01:15:00 +0900

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Sat, 17 Jan 2026 03:00:00 +0900

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		In SchedMD Slurm before 24.11.5, 24.05.8, and 23.11.11, the accounting system can allow a Coordinator to promote a user to Administrator.
First Time appeared		Schedmd Schedmd slurm
Weaknesses		CWE-863
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:schedmd:slurm::::::::
Vendors & Products		Schedmd Schedmd slurm
References		https://lists.schedmd.com/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/slurm-announce@lists.schedmd.com/message/B73QHKW6TKE2T5KDWVPIWNE5H4KWX667/ https://www.schedmd.com/security-policy/
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 4.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N'}`

Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2026-01-16T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2026-01-20T15:29:05.323Z

Reserved: 2025-04-19T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2025-43904

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-01-20T15:29:00.972Z

NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-01-16T18:16:08.197

Modified: 2026-01-16T18:16:08.197

Link: CVE-2025-43904

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-863

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