CVE-2026-119168 (GCVE-0-2026-119168)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-29 18:12 – Updated: 2026-10-30 17:19
VLAI
Title
Nomad allocation data migration may allow host directory permission modification via symlink following
Summary
HashiCorp Nomad and Nomad Enterprise are vulnerable to symlink following during same-client allocation data migration that may allow a malicious workload to change permissions and ownership of host directories. This could allow unauthorized access to host data or modification of host files, potentially leading to privilege escalation. This vulnerability (CVE-2026-119168) is fixed in Nomad 2.1.1 and Nomad Enterprise 2.1.0, 1.11.12, and 1.10.18.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-10-30 17:19 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-59 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access (Link Following)
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: 0.5.3 , < 2.1.1 (semver)
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HashiCorp Nomad Enterprise Affected: 0.5.3 , < 2.1.0 (semver)
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Credits
This issue was reported to HashiCorp by Sajda Kabir ([http://github.com/sajdakabir|http://github.com/sajdakabir]).
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