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critical 9.8

CVE-2020-7956 json

Improper Certificate Validation in HashiCorp Nomad

published 6y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-cj2h-ww36-v932 , GO-2022-0821 , EUVD-2021-1046

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.0%
EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 62%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

HashiCorp Nomad and Nomad Enterprise up to 0.10.2 incorrectly validated role/region associated with TLS certificates used for mTLS RPC, and were susceptible to privilege escalation. Fixed in 0.10.3.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/hashicorp/nomad 0.10.3
  • hashicorp nomad 0.10.3

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Exploit prediction

0.98% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 62% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/hashicorp/nomad
<0.10.3
0.10.3

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation

References

Sources

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