CVE-2026-119168

HIGH
MEDIUM Priority: 0.00 BB Relevance: 43/100
Published: 2026-10-29 Modified: 2026-10-29 First seen: 2026-10-29 Status: active

Attack Surface

Low Complexity No Interaction Conf. Impact Integ. Impact Scope Change

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Local
AC: Low
PR: Low
UI: None
S: Changed
C: High
I: High
A: High

Description

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 2.1.0 and Nomad Enterprise 2.1.0, 1.11.12, and 1.10.18.

Affected Software (1)

VendorProductVersion
HashiCorp Nomad 0.5.3 < 2.1.0

Bug Bounty Relevance

43 / 100
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

8.8 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

No EPSS data available

Intelligence Sources

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