NVIDIA Slurm contains a vulnerability where a user could deliberately alter the provided nodelist alongside the --distribution=arbitrary option to gain access to compute nodes outside of the current job allocation.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

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This CVE is not in the KEV list.

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions
NVIDIA Slurm unaffected
Version Status Constraints
25.05.0 through 25.05.8 affected —
25.11.0 through 25.11.7 affected —
26.05.0 through 26.05.3 affected —

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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-6491-1 slurm-wlm security update
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Solution

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Workaround

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References
Link Providers
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-65165 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-65165 cve-icon
History

Tue, 03 Nov 2026 15:45:00 +0000

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Description NVIDIA Slurm contains a vulnerability where a user could deliberately alter the provided nodelist alongside the --distribution=arbitrary option to gain access to compute nodes outside of the current job allocation.
Weaknesses CWE-129
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L'}

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: nvidia

Published:

Updated: 2026-11-03T15:37:29.293Z

Reserved: 2026-07-21T17:35:38.655Z

Link: CVE-2026-65165

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