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CVE-2024-6717

Nomad Vulnerable to Allocation Directory Path Escape Through Archive Unpacking

Published: Jul 23, 2024Updated: Jan 2, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSA BDUCWE-610
7.7HIGH
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
0.4%
Top 68.4%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available
Self-Check
Not available

Description

HashiCorp Nomad and Nomad Enterprise 1.6.12 up to 1.7.9, and 1.8.1 archive unpacking during migration is vulnerable to path escaping of the allocation directory. This vulnerability, CVE-2024-6717, is fixed in Nomad 1.6.13, 1.7.10, and 1.8.2.

No summary for this CVE yet.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:LUI:NS:CC:NI:HA:N
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:LPrivileges Required
Low
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:CScope
Changed
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:HIntegrity
High
A:NAvailability
None
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Weaknesses

CWE-610

Affected Products

HashiCorp
commercial·USaka hashicorp inc.
NomadOn-premSaaS Service
Cloud & SaaS / container-orchestration
Nomad EnterpriseOn-premDev Tool
Cloud & SaaS / container-orchestration
Go
package-ecosystem
github.com/hashicorp/nomad
OSS Libraries
ООО «Ред Софт»
commercial·RUaka red soft
РЕД ОСOn-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
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Exploitability

Official Patch Available
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References

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2024-15-nomad-vulnerable-to-allocation-directory-path-escape-through-archive-unpacking/68781
discuss.hashicorp.com
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-6717
nvd.nist.gov
https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/commit/ef6cdec8847e0698d386d1fd3761743df758ef99
github.com
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