---
id: "CVE-2026-65140"
kind: "vulnerability"
aliases: ["CVE-2026-65140"]
title: "NVIDIA Slurm: Operator accounts can escalate themselves to Administrator"
severity: "medium"
cvss: 5.7
epss: null
exploited: false
status: "open"
category: "infrastructure"
products: []
ecosystems: []
tags: ["hpc", "infrastructure", "slurm", "slurmdbd"]
not_affected_if: ["no-operator-accounts", "no-slurmdbd"]
published_at: "2026-11-03T16:17:35+00:00"
first_seen_at: "2026-11-03T16:21:45+00:00"
updated_at: "2026-11-03T16:24:12+00:00"
sources: [{"source": "nvd", "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-65140", "first_seen_at": "2026-11-03T16:21:45+00:00"}]
---

# NVIDIA Slurm: Operator accounts can escalate themselves to Administrator

Slurm's database daemon (SlurmDBD) has inconsistent authorization checks for the Operator permission level. Chained together, these let an Operator grant themselves Administrator rights.

_Summary, check and fix written by a model from the sources; labelled as such._

## Timeline

- 2026-11-03T16:21:45+00:00 nvd https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-65140

## Documents

- [mentions] Google Cloud Security Bulletins: GCP-2026-062: Published: 2026-09-11 Description Description Severity Notes Multiple security vulnerabilities were discovered in Slurm that affect Cluster  https://docs.cloud.google.com/support/bulletins/index#gcp-2026-062

## From the sources

NVIDIA Slurm contains some inconsistent authorization checks against the Operator permission level in the SlurmDBD that can be chained together in a way that would permit an Operator to make themselves an Administrator.

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