CVE-2026-6959

EUVD-2026-29825
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.
Link Following
ProviderTypeBase ScoreAtk. VectorAtk. ComplexityPriv. RequiredVector
HashiCorpCNA
6 MEDIUM
LOCAL
LOW
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
Base Score
CVSS 3.x
EPSS Score
Percentile: 5.77%
Early Detection
Affected products identified ahead of NVD analysis through intelligence sources.
VendorProductVersionSource
hashicorpnomad
0.9.0 ≤
𝑥
< 2.0.1
CNA
Ubuntu logo
Ubuntu Releases
Ubuntu Product
Codename
nomad
bionic
needs-triage
focal
needs-triage
jammy
dne
noble
dne
questing
dne
resolute
dne
Common Weakness Enumeration
References
https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-14-nomad-arbitrary-file-read-write-on-client-host-through-symlink-attack/77416