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.
PUBLISHED5.2CWE-59
Nomad vulnerable to arbitrary file read/write on client host through symlink attack
Problem type
Affected products
HashiCorp
Nomad
< 2.0.1 - AFFECTED
Nomad Enterprise
< 2.0.1 - AFFECTED
References
GitHub Security Advisories
GHSA-3934-423w-4jq3
HashiCorp Nomad and Nomad Enterprise prior to 2.0.1 are vulnerable to arbitrary file read and...
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3934-423w-4jq3HashiCorp 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.
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