CVE-2021-37218

mediumpriority · track · 35EPSS 0.007 · 52 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.67% (52nd) EPSS

CVSS 6.5 · medium

Is it mine?

6 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

HashiCorp Nomad and Nomad Enterprise Raft RPC layer allows non-server agents with a valid certificate signed by the same CA to access server-only functionality, enabling privilege escalation. Fixed in 1.0.10 and 1.1.4.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

8.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.5–8.8

v2.06.5mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8 · impact 6.4

v3.18.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 5.9

v3.18.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.18.1highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-295USprimaryCWE-295US

affected products (6)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
hashicorp nomad≤ 1.0.10nvdUScpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:nomad:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
hashicorp nomad< 1.0.10nvdUScpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:nomad:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
hashicorp nomad1.1.1 → 1.1.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:nomad:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Go github.com/hashicorp/nomad< 1.0.10osvUSpkg:golang/github.com/hashicorp/nomad
Go github.com/hashicorp/nomad1.1.0 → 1.1.4osvUSpkg:golang/github.com/hashicorp/nomad

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-c8x3-rg72-fwwgPrivilege escalation in Hashicorp Nomad2021-09-08ghsa · osvUS
HashiCorp Nomad and Nomad Enterprise Raft RPC layer allows non-server agents with a valid certificate signed by the same CA to access server-only functionality, enabling privilege escalation. Fixed in 1.0.10 and 1.1.4.
GO-2022-0591Privilege escalation in Hashicorp Nomad in github.com/hashicorp/nomad2024-08-21vendor · osvUS
Privilege escalation in Hashicorp Nomad in github.com/hashicorp/nomad

also known as (5)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd osv nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2021-09-07modified 2026-06-17

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references (9)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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