High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Nov 1, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026

CVE-2017-15566

Description

Insecure SPANK environment variable handling exists in SchedMD Slurm before 16.05.11, 17.x before 17.02.9, and 17.11.x before 17.11.0rc2, allowing privilege escalation to root during Prolog or Epilog execution.

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/101675nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4023nvdThird Party Advisory
www.schedmd.com/news.phpnvdVendor Advisory

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