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SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : slurm (SUSE-SU-2025:01759-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 237553

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:01759-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2025-43904: an issue with permission handling for Coordinators within the accounting system allowed Coordinators to promote a user to Administrator (bsc#1243666).

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

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1243666

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2025-May/039401.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-43904

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 237553

File Name: suse_SU-2025-01759-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/30/2025

Updated: 6/6/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-43904

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:slurm-torque, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:slurm-munge, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libslurm39, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:slurm-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:slurm-webdoc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:slurm-sql, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:slurm-lua, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:slurm-auth-none, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:perl-slurm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:slurm-sview, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpmi0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libnss_slurm2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:slurm-rest, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:slurm-hdf5, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:slurm-slurmdbd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:slurm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:slurm-openlava, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:slurm-cray, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:slurm-seff, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:slurm-config-man, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:slurm-plugin-ext-sensors-rrd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:slurm-plugins, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:slurm-config, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:slurm-node, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:slurm-pam_slurm, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:slurm-sjstat, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:slurm-doc

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/29/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/29/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-43904

IAVA: 2025-A-0388

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:01759-1