CVE-2020-7956 describes a critical privilege escalation vulnerability in HashiCorp Nomad and Nomad Enterprise versions up to 0.10.2, stemming from improper validation of role/region in TLS certificates used for mTLS RPC. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this network-exploitable flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to achieve high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 0.10.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:nomad:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 0.10.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:nomad:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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