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CVE-2024-12678: Hashicorp Nomad Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability

December 20, 2024

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

  • discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2024-29-nomad-allocations-vulnerable-to-privilege-escalation-within-a-namespace-using-unredacted-workload-identity-token/72119
  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-hr68-hvgv-xxqf
  • github.com/hashicorp/nomad
  • github.com/hashicorp/nomad/commit/359a71861ef044cb5d749a36ff0e44b172c8f1a6
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12678

Code Behaviors & Features

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Affected versions

All versions before 1.9.4

Fixed versions

  • 1.9.4

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.9.4 or above.

Impact 6.5 MEDIUM

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

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Weakness

  • CWE-266: Incorrect Privilege Assignment

Source file

go/github.com/hashicorp/nomad/CVE-2024-12678.yml

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