CVE-2026-6959 — Nomad vulnerable to arbitrary file read/write on client host through symlink attack

CVE-2026-6959

Nomad vulnerable to arbitrary file read/write on client host through symlink attack PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
HashiCorp / Nomad	affected 0.9.0 before 2.0.1
HashiCorp / Nomad Enterprise	affected 0.9.0 before 2.0.1

CWE

CWE-59

References

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

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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