CVE-2024-12678

Nomad Allocations Vulnerable To Privilege Escalation Within A Namespace Using Unredacted Workload Identity Tokens

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: Dec 20, 2024
Updated: Dec 20, 2024
Reserved: Dec 16, 2024

Description

Nomad Community and Nomad Enterprise ("Nomad") allocations are vulnerable to privilege escalation within a namespace through unredacted workload identity tokens. This vulnerability, identified as CVE-2024-12678, is fixed in Nomad Community Edition 1.9.4 and Nomad Enterprise 1.9.4, 1.8.8, and 1.7.16.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	HashiCorp

Weaknesses

CWE-266 Incorrect Privilege Assignment

Affected Products

Product	Versions
NomadHashiCorp	1.4.0 to before 1.9.4Affected
Nomad EnterpriseHashiCorp	1.4.0 to before 1.9.4Affectedfrom 1.8.8Not affectedfrom 1.7.16Not affected

References

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2024-29-nomad-allocations-vulnerable-to-privilege-escalation-within-a-namespace-using-unredacted-workload-identity-token/72119

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