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Ubuntu 20.04 ESM / 22.04 ESM : Slurm vulnerabilities (USN-6458-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 184019

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 ESM / 22.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6458-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that Slurm did not properly handle credential management, which could allow an unprivileged user to impersonate the SlurmUser account. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code as the root user. (CVE-2022-29500)

 It was discovered that Slurm did not properly handle access control when dealing with RPC traffic through PMI2 and PMIx, which could allow an unprivileged user to send data to an arbitrary unix socket in the host. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code as the root user.
 (CVE-2022-29501)

 It was discovered that Slurm did not properly handle validation logic when processing input and output data with the srun client, which could lead to the interception of process I/O. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-29502)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6458-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 184019

File Name: ubuntu_USN-6458-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/30/2023

Updated: 8/27/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-29501

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-29502

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:slurm-client-emulator, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:slurm-wlm-basic-plugins, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:slurm-wlm-torque, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libslurmdb-perl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libslurm37, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpmi2-0-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:slurm-wlm-emulator, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpam-slurm-adopt, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpam-slurm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:slurmrestd, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpmi0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:slurmctld, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libslurm-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:slurmdbd, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpmi0-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libslurm-perl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:slurm-wlm-basic-plugins-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpmi2-0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:slurm-client, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:sview, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:slurmd, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:esm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libslurm34, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:slurm-wlm, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:esm

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/30/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/5/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-29500, CVE-2022-29501, CVE-2022-29502

USN: 6458-1