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CVE-2024-12678

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

MEDIUM
6.5
CVSS Score
Published: December 20, 2024 at 01:49 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 07:00 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorNomad

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Severity
MEDIUM6.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%
SSVC
No known exploit

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Nomad· Hashicorp
95%
1.4.0 ≤ v < 1.7.161.4.0 ≤ v < 1.9.41.8.0 ≤ v < 1.8.81.9.0 ≤ v < 1.9.41.4.0
Affected range stops below 1.9.4, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (1)

Vendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2024-29-nomad-allocations-vulnerable-to-privilege-escalation-within-a-namespace-using-unredacted-workload-identity-token/72119

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

6.5MEDIUMHashiCorp
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-266

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