CVE-2024-12678 (GCVE-0-2024-12678)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-12-20 01:49 – Updated: 2024-12-20 17:08
VLAI
Title
Nomad Allocations Vulnerable To Privilege Escalation Within A Namespace Using Unredacted Workload Identity Tokens
Summary
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.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-12-20 17:07 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-266 - Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Assigner
HashiCorp CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 70/100 over 49 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
HashiCorp Nomad Affected: 1.4.0 , < 1.9.4 (semver)
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HashiCorp Nomad Enterprise Affected: 1.4.0 , < 1.9.4 (semver)
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