Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-65165 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-65165 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-65165?
- Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 5.3, published 3 November 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- NVIDIA Slurm.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-65165?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2026-65165 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in a hosted service.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-65165?
- Check whether you run Nvidia Slurm. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in NVIDIA Slurm where an authenticated user can craft a malicious nodelist in combination with the --distribution=arbitrary option to bypass job allocation restrictions. This allows the attacker to access compute nodes they are not authorized to use within their current job context.
Affected products
- NVIDIA Slurm
Timeline
- 2026-11-03: disclosed