---
id: CVE-2026-65165
title: >-
  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.
summary: >-
  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.
severity: medium
cvss: 5.3
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L'
cvssSource: cna
cwe:
  - CWE-129
vendor: NVIDIA
product: Slurm
affected:
  - Slurm 25.05.0 through 25.05.8
  - Slurm 25.11.0 through 25.11.7
  - Slurm 26.05.0 through 26.05.3
ssvc:
  exploitation: none
  automatable: 'no'
  technicalImpact: partial
  timestamp: '2026-11-03T17:19:33.429345Z'
published: '2026-11-03'
updated: '2026-11-03'
sourceUpdated: '2026-11-03T18:26:52.900Z'
source: CVEORG
sourceUrl: 'https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-65165'
references:
  - url: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-65165'
  - url: 'https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-65165'
tags:
  - cve.org
epss: 0.00131
epssPercentile: 0.02748
ingestedAt: '2026-11-05T20:33:06.348Z'
---

## Overview

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.

## Affected

- `Slurm 25.05.0 through 25.05.8`
- `Slurm 25.11.0 through 25.11.7`
- `Slurm 26.05.0 through 26.05.3`

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.