GHSA-wqwc-x3rc-2xw6MediumCVSS 6.0
HashiCorp Nomad’s exec2 task driver vulnerable to a symlink attack
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
HashiCorp Nomad’s exec2 task driver prior to 0.1.2 is vulnerable to arbitrary file read and write on the client host as the Nomad process user through a symlink attack. This vulnerability (CVE-2026-8052) is fixed in version 0.1.2 of the exec2 task driver.
🎯 Affected products1
- go/github.com/hashicorp/nomad-driver-exec2:< 0.1.2
🔗 References (4)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-8052
- https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-13-nomads-exec2-task-driver-vulnerable-to-arbitrary-file-read-write-on-client-host-through-symlink-attack/77415
- https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad-driver-exec2/releases/tag/v0.1.2
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wqwc-x3rc-2xw6