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Advisory-SVG-CVE-2021-31215
Title: EGI SVG 'ADVISORY' [TLP:WHITE] HIGH risk vulnerability concerning SLURM CVE-2021-31215 [EGI-SVG-CVE-2021-31215] Date: 2021-05-18 Updated: 2021-06-26 - changed to [WHITE} Affected software and risk ========================== HIGH risk vulnerability concerning SLURM Package : SLURM CVE ID : CVE-2021-31215 A vulnerability has been found in Slurm that allows any user to run arbitrary commands as SlurmUser if the installation uses a PrologSlurmctld and/or EpilogSlurmctld script. [R 1] Actions required/recommended ============================ Sites running SLURM are recommended to update to version 20.11.7 or 20.02.7 or later as soon as possible which include a fix for this issue. Component installation information ================================== Sites should see [R 3] Mitigation ========== If sites do NOT run PrologSlurmctld and/or EpilogSlurmctld script this is probably not exploitable. Affected software details ========================= This has been fixed in SLURM versions 20.11.7 or 20.02.7, earlier versions may be vulnerable. TLP and URL =========== ** WHITE information - Unlimited distribution - see https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/EGI_CSIRT:TLP for distribution restrictions ** This advisory will be placed on the wiki on or after 2021-05-25 URL: https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/SVG:Advisory-SVG-CVE-2021-31215 Minor updates may be made without re-distribution to the sites Comments ======== Comments or questions should be sent to svg-rat at mailman.egi.eu If you find or become aware of another vulnerability which is relevant to EGI you may report it by e-mail to report-vulnerability at egi.eu the EGI Software Vulnerability Group will take a look according to the procedure defined in [R 4] Note that this is undergoing revision to fully handle vulnerabilities in the EOSC-hub era. References ========== [R 1] https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2021-31215 [R 2] https://lists.schedmd.com/pipermail/slurm-announce/2021/000055.html [R 3] https://www.schedmd.com/downloads.php [R 4] https://documents.egi.eu/public/ShowDocument?docid=3145 Credit ====== SVG was alerted to this vulnerability by Barbara Krasovec who is a member of SVG Timeline ======== Yyyy-mm-dd [EGI-SVG-CVE-2021-31215] 2021-05-13 SVG alerted to this issue by Barbara Krasovec 2021-05-13 Investigation of vulnerability and relevance to EGI carried out by SVG 2021-05-13 Updated packages available from the software providers 2021-05-17 EGI SVG Risk Assessment completed 2021-05-18 Advisory sent to sites 2021-06-16 Advisory placed on Wiki Context ======= This advisory has been prepared as part of the effort to fulfil EGI SVG's purpose "To minimize the risk to the EGI infrastructure arising from software vulnerabilities" The risk is that assessed by the group, according to the EGI SVG issue handling procedure [R 4] in the context of how the software is used in the EGI infrastructure. It is the opinion of the group, we do not guarantee it to be correct. The risk may also be higher or lower in other deployments depending on how the software is used. ----------------------------- Others may re-use this information provided they:- 1) Respect the provided TLP classification 2) Credit the EGI https://www.egi.eu/ Software Vulnerability Group ------------------------------ Note that the SVG issue handling procedure is currently under review, to take account of the increasing inhomogeneity of the EGI infrastructure and the services in the EOSC-hub catalogue. On behalf of the EGI SVG,