CVE-2017-15566: Schedmd Slurm

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Insecure SPANK environment variable handling exists in SchedMD Slurm before 16.05.11, 17.x before 17.02.9, and 17.11.x before 17.11.0rc2, allowing privilege escalation to root during Prolog or Epilog execution.

Affected products

• Schedmd Slurm: before 16.05.11 (fixed in 16.05.11); from 17.02.0, before 17.2.09 (fixed in 17.2.09); version 17.11.0 only

Published 2017-11-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.