CVE-2020-36770: Gentoo Ebuild For Slurm

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

pkg_postinst in the Gentoo ebuild for Slurm through 22.05.3 unnecessarily calls chown to assign root's ownership on files in the live root filesystem. This could be exploited by the slurm user to become the owner of root-owned files.

Affected products

• Gentoo Ebuild For Slurm: up to and including 22.05.3

Published 2024-01-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.