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CVE-2026-6959

HashiCorp Nomad and Nomad Enterprise prior to 2.0.1 are vulnerable to arbitrary file read and write on the client host as the Nomad process user through a symlink attack. This vulnerability (CVE-2026-6959) is fixed in Nomad 2.0.1, 1.11.5 and 1.10.11.

Properties

severity
medium
summary
HashiCorp Nomad vulnerable to symlink attack
epss_score
0.00169
cvss_score
6
ghsa_published
2026-05-12T21:31:35Z
source_url
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3934-423w-4jq3
ghsa_updated
2026-05-19T15:39:43Z
ghsa_id
GHSA-3934-423w-4jq3
cve_id
CVE-2026-6959
cvss_vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
is_ghsa_only
false
epss_percentile
0.06615

Related Entities (5)

ENRICHED_BY (1)

[Source]FIRST EPSS

VULNERABLE_TO (1)

[Software]go/github.com/hashicorp/nomad

AFFECTS (1)

[Software]go/github.com/hashicorp/nomad

HAS_WEAKNESS (1)

[Weakness]Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

REPORTED_BY (1)

[Source]GitHub Advisory Database

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