CVE-2024-12678

moderate-risk
Published 2024-12-20

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.

Do I need to act?

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0.30% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 6.5/10 Medium
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (2)

Affected Vendors

Hashicorp

References (1)

Vendor Advisory https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2024-29-nomad-allocations-vulnerable-to-pr...
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moderate-risk
Severity 24/34 · High
Exploitability 1/34 · Minimal
Exposure 7/34 · Low