CVE-2026-119168

CVSS 8.8 (high) · published 2026-10-29

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.

Weakness: CWE-59

Source: NVD CVE-2026-119168

References

• https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-53-nomad-allocation-data-migration-may-allow-host-directory-permission-modification-via-symlink-following/77931

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