UBUNTU-CVE-2026-65165: Medium severity ubuntu/slurm-wlm vulnerability

Published Nov 3, 2026

Updated

NVIDIA Slurm contains a vulnerability where a user could deliberately alter the provided nodelist alongside the --distribution=arbitrary option to gain access to compute nodes outside of the current job allocation.

Affected Software

4 affected components

ubuntu/slurm-wlm*

Event History

Nov 3, 2026

CVE Published

via OSV·04:17 PM

Data Sourced

via OSV·04:17 PM

DescriptionSeverityAffected Software

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Who can exploit this issue?

An attacker must already be a user with a current Slurm job allocation and sufficient ability to alter the nodelist used with the --distribution=arbitrary option. The CVSS vector indicates local access, low privileges, high attack complexity, and no user interaction requirement.

What is the impact if exploitation succeeds?

The user may gain access to compute nodes that are outside their current job allocation. The reported impacts include high confidentiality impact and low availability impact, with no integrity impact.

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-65165: Medium severity ubuntu/slurm-wlm vulnerability

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