Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-65168 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-65168 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-65168?
- High severity, with a CVSS score of 7, published 3 November 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- NVIDIA Slurm.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-65168?
- 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-2026-65168 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in a hosted service.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-65168?
- 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
An attacker-controlled heap-based buffer overflow exists in the slurmstepd socket handling code. The vulnerability can be triggered through socket interactions, allowing an attacker to write beyond allocated buffer boundaries and gain code execution or cause a denial of service on systems running the affected Slurm daemon.
Affected products
- NVIDIA Slurm
Timeline
- 2026-11-03: disclosed