# CVE-2023-49938: An issue was discovered in SchedMD Slurm 22.05.x and 23.02.x.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-12-14 · Updated: 2025-11-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

An issue was discovered in SchedMD Slurm 22.05.x and 23.02.x. There is Incorrect Access Control: an attacker can modified their extended group list that is used with the sbcast subsystem, and open files with an unauthorized set of extended groups. The fixed versions are 22.05.11 and 23.02.7.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://www.schedmd.com/security-archive.php
- https://lists.schedmd.com/pipermail/slurm-announce/2023/000103.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/63FEDDYEE2WK7FHWBHKON3OZVQI56WSQ/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AYQS3LFGC4HE4WCW4L3NAA2I6FRIWMNO/

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