CVE-2025-1296

Nomad Exposes Sensitive Workload Identity and Client Secret Token in Audit Logs

Published: Mar 10, 2025Updated: Dec 18, 2025 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSA BDUCWE-532

6.5MEDIUM

Description

Nomad Community and Nomad Enterprise (“Nomad”) are vulnerable to unintentional exposure of the workload identity token and client secret token in audit logs. This vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-1296, is fixed in Nomad Community Edition 1.9.7 and Nomad Enterprise 1.9.7, 1.8.11, and 1.7.19.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

Exploitability

AV:NAttack Vector

Network

AC:LAttack Complexity

Low

PR:LPrivileges Required

Low

UI:NUser Interaction

None

Scope

S:UScope

Unchanged

Impact

C:HConfidentiality

High

I:NIntegrity

None

A:NAvailability

None

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Weaknesses

CWE-532

Affected Products

HashiCorp

commercial·USaka hashicorp inc.

NomadOn-premSaaS Service

Cloud & SaaS / container-orchestration

Nomad EnterpriseOn-premDev Tool

Cloud & SaaS / container-orchestration

ООО «Ред Софт»

commercial·RUaka red soft

РЕД ОСOn-premOS

Operating Systems / linux-distro

package-ecosystem

github.com/hashicorp/nomad

OSS Libraries

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Exploitability

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References

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-04-nomad-exposes-sensitivity-workload-identity-and-client-secret-token-in-audit-logs/73737

discuss.hashicorp.com

https://redos.red-soft.ru/support/secure/uyazvimosti/uyazvimost-nomad-cve-2025-1296/?sphrase_id=966178

redos.red-soft.ru

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-04-nomad-exposes-sensitive-workload-identity-and-client-secret-token-in-audit-logs/73737

discuss.hashicorp.com

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