Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 916
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 916

SUSE: slurm Important Admin Access Issue CVE-2025-43904 2025:02779-1

suse
Calendar Grey August 13, 2025
Dist Suse Esm H88
A critical patch for SUSE tackles a vulnerability in slurm that might enable unauthorized administrative control.
* bsc#1243666 Cross-References: * CVE-2025-43904

Summary

## This update for slurm fixes the following issues: * CVE-2025-43904: an issue with permission handling for Coordinators within the accounting system allowed Coordinators to promote a user to Administrator (bsc#1243666). ## Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: * openSUSE Leap 15.4 zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-2779=1 * SUSE Package Hub 15 15-SP6 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Packagehub-Subpackages-15-SP6-2025-2779=1 * SUSE Package Hub 15 15-SP7 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Packagehub-Subpackages-15-SP7-2025-2779=1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP4

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory SuSE important administrative access permission issue coordination

References

* bsc#1243666

Cross-

* CVE-2025-43904

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2025-43904 ( SUSE ): 8.5

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

* CVE-2025-43904 ( SUSE ): 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products:

* openSUSE Leap 15.4

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP4

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP4

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP6

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP7

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP7

Severity
important
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:02779-1
Release Date: 2025-08-13T06:57:35Z
Rating: important

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory SuSE important administrative access permission issue coordination

Get the latest News and Insights

Get the latest Linux and open source security news straight to your inbox.

Your message here