# CVE-2026-65165: NVIDIA Slurm contains a vulnerability where a user could deliberately alter the provided nodelist alongside the --distribution=arbitrary…

- Also known as: EUVD-2026-116015
- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-11-03 · Updated: 2026-11-03

## Summary

NVIDIA Slurm, the workload manager used to schedule jobs on high-performance computing clusters, is affected. A user who deliberately modifies the node list together with the --distribution=arbitrary option could gain access to compute nodes outside their own job allocation.

Model-written summary (anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5). Verify details against the original sources.

## Affected

- NVIDIA Slurm: 25.05.0 through 25.05.8, 25.11.0 through 25.11.7, 26.05.0 through 26.05.3

## Description

NVIDIA Slurm contains a vulnerability where a user could deliberately alter the provided nodelist alongside the --distribution=arbitrary option to gain access to compute nodes outside of the current job allocation.

## What to do

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

- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-65165
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-65165

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