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CVE-2026-6959

25
FAUCET Score

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.

First published: May 12, 2026Last modified: May 12, 2026

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
HashiCorpNomad Enterprise
>= 0.9.0, < 2.0.1CNA affecteddefault unaffected
HashiCorpNomad
>= 0.9.0, < 2.0.1CNA affecteddefault unaffected

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.0MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.5
Impact Score
4.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.17%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
6.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0017 is in the 43rd percentile among its peer group of 3,720 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/hashicorp/nomadFixed in: 1.11.0-rc.1.0.20260512123500-2a09fd62c238

Vendor Advisories (1)

goGHSA-3934-423w-4jq3medium

HashiCorp Nomad vulnerable to symlink attack

May 12, 2026

References

discuss.hashicorp.com / t/hcsec-2026-14-nomad-arbitrary-file-read-write-on-client-host-through-symlink-attack/77416