CVE catalog
CVE-2026-8052
UBUNTU-CVE-2026-8052
- Severity
- Medium · CVSS 6
CVSS: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
- 0.13% · Oct 25, 2026
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.
Vulnerable and fixed packages
Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.
| Distribution | Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu | nomad | 18.04 | 0.4.0+dfsg-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | nomad | 20.04 | 0.8.7+dfsg1-1ubuntu1 | vulnerable |
Fixed-version evidence
OpenFactory catalog packages
No matching packages in this catalog.
Observed:
References
- [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://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-8052]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-8052]
[FIRST EPSS] · [National Vulnerability Database (NVD)] · [OSV Package Vulnerability Database]