CVE-2024-12678

MEDIUM

Nomad 1.4.0-1.7.15, 1.8.0-1.9.3 - Privilege Escalation via Unredacted Workload Identity Token

Title source: llm

Description

Nomad Community and Nomad Enterprise ("Nomad") allocations are vulnerable to privilege escalation within a namespace through unredacted workload identity tokens. This vulnerability, identified as CVE-2024-12678, is fixed in Nomad Community Edition 1.9.4 and Nomad Enterprise 1.9.4, 1.8.8, and 1.7.16.

References (1)

Core 1

Core References

Vendor Advisory

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2024-29-nomad-allocations-vulnerable-to-privilege-escalation-within-a-namespace-using-unredacted-workload-identity-token/72119

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.0041

EPSS Percentile 61.4%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-266

Status published

Products (3)

hashicorp/nomad 0 - 1.9.4Go

hashicorp/nomad 1.4.0 - 1.7.16

hashicorp/nomad 1.4.0 - 1.9.4

Published Dec 20, 2024

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026