CVE-2026-6959

mediumpriority · track · 0EPSS 0.002 · 6 %ileEURUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.17% (6th) EPSS

CVSS 6 · medium

Is it mine?

8 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

HashiCorp Nomad and Nomad Enterprise prior to 2.0.1 are vulnerable to arbitrary file read and write on the client host as the Nomad process user through a symlink attack. This vulnerability (CVE-2026-6959) is fixed in Nomad 2.0.1, 1.11.5 and 1.10.11.

cvss

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

6.0

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.16mediumAV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:Nsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

v3.16mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:Nsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.16mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:Nsecondary · security@hashicorp.comexploitability 1.5 · impact 4

v3.16mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:Nsecondary · OSV

v3.15.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Trackcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-59USCWE-59USCWE-59US

affected products (8)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

HashiCorp Nomad0.9.0 → 2.0.1enisa_euvdEU
Hashicorp Nomad Enterprise0.9.0 → 2.0.1enisa_euvdEU
HashiCorp Nomad≤ Enterprise до 1.10.11fstec_bduRU
HashiCorp Nomad≤ Enterprise до 1.11.5fstec_bduRU
HashiCorp Nomad≤ Enterprise от 0.9 до 2.0.1fstec_bduRU
HashiCorp Nomad≤ Community Edition от 0.9 до 2.0.1fstec_bduRU
ООО «Ред Софт» РЕД ОС≤ 8.0fstec_bduRU
Go github.com/hashicorp/nomad< 1.11.0-rc.1.0.20260512123500-2a09fd62c238osvUSpkg:golang/github.com/hashicorp/nomad

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-3934-423w-4jq3HashiCorp Nomad vulnerable to symlink attack2026-05-12ghsa · osvUS
HashiCorp Nomad and Nomad Enterprise prior to 2.0.1 are vulnerable to arbitrary file read and write on the client host as the Nomad process user through a symlink attack. This vulnerability (CVE-2026-6959) is fixed in Nomad 2.0.1, 1.11.5 and 1.10.11.
GO-2026-5076HashiCorp Nomad vulnerable to symlink attack in github.com/hashicorp/nomad2026-06-25vendor · osvUS
HashiCorp Nomad vulnerable to symlink attack in github.com/hashicorp/nomad

also known as (6)

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sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd fstec_bdu osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2026-05-12modified 2026-10-26

references (4)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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