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CVE-2020-27746 (GCVE-0-2020-27746)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-11-27 17:03 – Updated: 2024-08-04 16:18
VLAI
Summary
Slurm before 19.05.8 and 20.x before 20.02.6 exposes Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor because xauth for X11 magic cookies is affected by a race condition in a read operation on the /proc filesystem.
Severity
3.7 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://www.schedmd.com/news.php x_refsource_MISC
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4841 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
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