CVE-2026-8052

FAUCET Score

HashiCorp Nomad’s exec2 task driver prior to 0.1.2 is vulnerable to arbitrary file read and write on the client host as the Nomad process user through a symlink attack. This vulnerability (CVE-2026-8052) is fixed in version 0.1.2 of the exec2 task driver.

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

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
HashiCorp	Shared Library	>= 0.1.0, < 0.1.2CNA 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

0.13%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

2.9%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0013 is in the 29th 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/nomad-driver-exec2Fixed in: 0.1.2

Vendor Advisories (1)

goGHSA-wqwc-x3rc-2xw6medium

HashiCorp Nomad’s exec2 task driver vulnerable to a symlink attack

May 12, 2026

References

discuss.hashicorp.com / t/hcsec-2026-13-nomads-exec2-task-driver-vulnerable-to-arbitrary-file-read-write-on-client-host-through-symlink-attack/77415