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CVE-2026-8052Nomad's exec2 task driver vulnerable to arbitrary file read/write on client host through symlink attack
- 6.0MediumCVSS base score
- 0.13%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 97% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By HashiCorp
- 6 days later
· 6 days later
Published
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| HashiCorpCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium6.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.13% · top 97% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.0.
Affected products
- affected 0.1.0 – < 0.1.2
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/hashicorp/nomad-driver-exec2GHSA-wqwc-x3rc-2xw6 (opens in a new tab)
References
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-29827 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-wqwc-x3rc-2xw6 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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