Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Jan 31, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2020-7956

Description

HashiCorp Nomad and Nomad Enterprise up to 0.10.2 incorrectly validated role/region associated with TLS certificates used for mTLS RPC, and were susceptible to privilege escalation. Fixed in 0.10.3.

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Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
github.com/hashicorp/nomadGo	< 0.10.3	0.10.3

Affected products

Hashicorp/Nomad2 versions
cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:nomad:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:nomad:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <0.10.3
- cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:nomad:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*range: <0.10.3
HashiCorp/Nomad Enterprisedescription
ghsa-coords
pkg:golang/github.com/hashicorp/nomad
Range: < 0.10.3

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-cj2h-ww36-v932ghsaADVISORY
github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/7003nvdThird Party AdvisoryWEB
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7956ghsaADVISORY
www.hashicorp.com/blog/category/nomad/nvdVendor Advisory
github.com/hashicorp/nomad/pull/7023ghsaWEB
www.hashicorp.com/blog/category/nomadghsaWEB

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