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GHSA-3934-423w-4jq3 HashiCorp Nomad vulnerable to symlink attack

MEDIUM Published 2026-05-12 Modified 2026-05-19 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2026-6959
Ecosystem
Go
Packages
github.com/hashicorp/nomad
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-59
Reviewed
2026-05-19

Affected packages

• Go github.com/hashicorp/nomad: < 1.11.0-rc.1.0.20260512123500-2a09fd62c238 → fixed in 1.11.0-rc.1.0.20260512123500-2a09fd62c238

Description

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.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • 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… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness

References