Coordinator-to-Administrator escalation via unchecked admin level
Published Jan 16, 2026 · Updated Jan 16, 2026
Incorrect authorization in SchedMD Slurm before 24.11.5, 24.05.8, and 23.11.11 allows remote authenticated Coordinators to create Administrators. The MySQL accounting-storage user-add path writes a requested admin_level without verifying that the caller is an Administrator or Operator. Exploitation requires Slurm accounting and Coordinator access; it changes accounting privileges without directly interrupting scheduling.
Summary
What happened
Incorrect authorization in SchedMD Slurm before 24.11.5, 24.05.8, and 23.11.11 allows remote authenticated Coordinators to create Administrators. The MySQL accounting-storage user-add path writes a requested admin_level without verifying that the caller is an Administrator or Operator. Exploitation requires Slurm accounting and Coordinator access; it changes accounting privileges without directly interrupting scheduling.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-43904
- Published
- Jan 16, 2026
- Updated
- Jan 16, 2026
- Vendor
- SchedMD
- Product
- Slurm
- Classifications
- CWE-863, T1098
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jan 16, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jan 16, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <23.11.11
- Affected versionversion=24.06 <24.11.5
- Affected versionversion=24 <24.05.8
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