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CVE-2020-7956: Improper Certificate Validation

May 18, 2021

HashiCorp Nomad and Nomad Enterprise up to 0.10.2 incorrectly validated role/region associated with TLS certificates used for mTLS RPC, and were susceptible to privilege escalation. Fixed in 0.10.3.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-cj2h-ww36-v932
  • github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/7003
  • github.com/hashicorp/nomad/pull/7023
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7956

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Affected versions

All versions before 0.10.3

Fixed versions

  • 0.10.3

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.10.3 or above.

Impact 9.8 CRITICAL

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

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Weakness

  • CWE-295: Improper Certificate Validation

Source file

go/github.com/hashicorp/nomad/CVE-2020-7956.yml

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