CVE-2026-119168

HIGH 8.8

Nomad allocation data migration may allow host directory permission modification via symlink following

CVSS Score

8.8

EPSS Score

0.0%

EPSS Percentile

0th

HashiCorp Nomad and Nomad Enterprise are vulnerable to symlink following during same-client allocation data migration that may allow a malicious workload to change permissions and ownership of host directories. This could allow unauthorized access to host data or modification of host files, potentially leading to privilege escalation. This vulnerability (CVE-2026-119168) is fixed in Nomad 2.1.0 and Nomad Enterprise 2.1.0, 1.11.12, and 1.10.18.

CWE	CWE-59
Vendor	hashicorp
Product	nomad
Published	Oct 29, 2026

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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Scope

Confidentiality

Integrity

Availability

Affected Versions

HashiCorp / Nomad

0.5.3 < 2.1.0

HashiCorp / Nomad Enterprise

0.5.3 < 2.1.0

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗

discuss.hashicorp.com: https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-53-nomad-allocation-data-migration-may-allow-host-directory-permission-modification-via-symlink-following/77931

Credits

This issue was reported to HashiCorp by Sajda Kabir ([http://github.com/sajdakabir|http://github.com/sajdakabir]).