Medium severity6.0NVD Advisory· Published May 12, 2026· Updated May 13, 2026

CVE-2026-6959

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.

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.

References

discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-14-nomad-arbitrary-file-read-write-on-client-host-through-symlink-attack/77416nvd

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