CVE catalog

CVE-2026-6959

UBUNTU-

[CVE catalog]

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.

Severity
Medium · CVSS 6CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
Published
Updated
Source
[NVD] · [CVE record]
EPSS
0.17% · Oct 27, 2026

Reported versions and fixes

Each observation applies to its named package, distribution, and release. Distribution backports can fix a vulnerability while retaining an older upstream version number.

Version impact has not been established. The original provider fields are retained below.

Provider details and historical evidence
Original provider fields
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  "fixed_versions": [],
  "distribution_packages": [
    {
      "name": "nomad",
      "distro": "ubuntu",
      "ranges": [
        {
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "release": "18.04",
      "versions": [
        "0.4.0+dfsg-1"
      ],
      "ecosystem": "deb",
      "fixed_version": "",
      "provider_record_id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2026-6959"
    },
    {
      "name": "nomad",
      "distro": "ubuntu",
      "ranges": [
        {
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "release": "20.04",
      "versions": [
        "0.8.7+dfsg1-1ubuntu1"
      ],
      "ecosystem": "deb",
      "fixed_version": "",
      "provider_record_id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2026-6959"
    }
  ]
}

OpenFactory catalog packages

Matching against OpenFactory catalog package versions is in progress.

Observed:

References

[FIRST EPSS] · [National Vulnerability Database (NVD)] · [OSV Package Vulnerability Database]