CVE-2026-6959
HashiCorp Nomad vulnerable to symlink attack
6.0
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.01%
Description
HashiCorp Nomad and Nomad Enterprise prior to 2.0.1 are vulnerable to arbitrary file read and write on the client host as the Nomad process user through a symlink attack. This vulnerability (CVE-2026-6959) is fixed in Nomad 2.0.1, 1.11.5 and 1.10.11.
How to fix CVE-2026-6959
To remediate CVE-2026-6959, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 1.11.0-rc.1.0.20260512123500-2a09fd62c238 or later
Is CVE-2026-6959 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.0%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 1.11.0-rc.1.0.20260512123500-2a09fd62c238
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N |