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Debian dsa-5961 : libpam-slurm - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 241522

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

The remote Debian 12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dsa-5961 advisory.

 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-5961-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Shengqi Chen July 08, 2025 https://www.debian.org/security/faq
 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------

 Package : slurm-wlm CVE ID : CVE-2025-43904 Debian Bug : 1104929

 Sekou Diakite from HPE discovered a mistake with permission handling for Coordinators within the accounting system of Slurm Workload Manager, a cluster resource management and job scheduling system, that it could allow a Coordinator to promote a user to Administrator.

 - - For the stable distribution (bookworm), this problem has been fixed in version 22.05.8-4+deb12u3.

 We recommend that you upgrade your slurm-wlm packages.

 For the detailed security status of slurm-wlm please refer to its security tracker page at:
 https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/slurm-wlm

 Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://www.debian.org/security/

 Mailing list: [email protected]

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Debian 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

Upgrade the libpam-slurm packages.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/slurm-wlm

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-43904

https://packages.debian.org/source/bookworm/slurm-wlm

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 241522

File Name: debian_DSA-5961.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/8/2025

Updated: 7/8/2025

Supported Sensors: 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:debian:debian_linux:slurm-wlm-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:slurm-wlm-emulator, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:slurm-wlm-ipmi-plugins-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:slurm-wlm-hdf5-plugin-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:slurmctld, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:slurm-wlm-plugins, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libslurm-perl, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:slurm-wlm-influxdb-plugin, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libslurmdb-perl, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:12.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:slurm-client, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:sview, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpam-slurm-adopt, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:slurm-wlm-basic-plugins-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:slurm-wlm-plugins-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpmi0-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:slurm-wlm-mysql-plugin-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpmi0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:slurm-client-emulator, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:slurm-wlm-rsmi-plugin, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:slurm-wlm-jwt-plugin, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:slurm-wlm-mysql-plugin, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:slurm-wlm-influxdb-plugin-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:slurm-wlm-rsmi-plugin-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:slurm-wlm-elasticsearch-plugin-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpmi2-0-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:slurm-wlm-basic-plugins, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:slurm-wlm-hdf5-plugin, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libslurm-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:slurm-wlm-elasticsearch-plugin, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:slurm-wlm-jwt-plugin-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:slurm-wlm-rrd-plugin, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpmi2-0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:slurm-wlm-ipmi-plugins, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:slurmrestd, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:slurm-wlm-rrd-plugin-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:slurm-wlm-torque, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpam-slurm, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:slurmd, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:slurmdbd, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:slurm-wlm, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libslurm38

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/8/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/5/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-43904