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CVE-2019-14802 json

Hashicorp Nomad Information Exposure Through Environmental Variables

published 4y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-6hv3-7c34-4hx8 , GO-2022-0634 , EUVD-2022-0861

cvss
5.3
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 50%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

HashiCorp Nomad 0.5.0 through 0.9.4 (fixed in 0.9.5) reveals unintended environment variables to the rendering task during template rendering, aka GHSA-6hv3-7c34-4hx8. This applies to nomad/client/allocrunner/taskrunner/template.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/hashicorp/nomad 0.9.5
  • hashicorp nomad 0.9.5
  • nomad Alpine 3.18, Alpine 3.17, Alpine 3.16 +3 more 0.9.5-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2019-14802

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

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Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2019-14802 updated cvss 5.3

hashicorp/nomad: Information Exposure Through Environmental Variables

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/topology-aware-lifecycle-manager-rhel8-operator
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Openshift Container Storage 4 ocs4/cephcsi-rhel8, ocs4/mcg-rhel8-operator, ocs4/ocs-rhel8-operator, ocs4/rook-ceph-rhel8-operator
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4 odf4/odf-multicluster-rhel9-operator
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/ose-installer, openshift4/ose-prometheus, openshift4/ose-thanos-rhel8, openshift4/ose-prometheus-rhel9-operator, openshift4/ose-cluster-monitoring-rhel9-operator Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4 odf4/cephcsi-rhel9, odf4/mcg-rhel9-operator, odf4/ocs-rhel9-operator, odf4/odf-rhel8-operator, odf4/odr-rhel8-operator Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces devspaces/traefik-rhel8
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
last yr.

Exploit prediction

0.63% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 50% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CNA 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/hashicorp/nomad
<0.9.5
0.9.5

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
  • CWE-526 Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in an Environment Variable

References

Sources

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