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.
History

Wed, 13 May 2026 11:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Hashicorp
Hashicorp nomad
Hashicorp nomad Enterprise
Vendors & Products Hashicorp
Hashicorp nomad
Hashicorp nomad Enterprise

Tue, 12 May 2026 21:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Tue, 12 May 2026 19:30:00 +0000

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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.
Title Nomad vulnerable to arbitrary file read/write on client host through symlink attack
Weaknesses CWE-59
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: HashiCorp

Published: 2026-05-12T18:59:09.029Z

Updated: 2026-05-12T20:16:15.200Z

Reserved: 2026-04-24T14:29:55.377Z

Link: CVE-2026-6959

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-05-12T20:15:22.179Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-05-12T20:16:46.267

Modified: 2026-05-13T15:53:17.173

Link: CVE-2026-6959

cve-icon Redhat

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