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High · 7.7 CVE-2024-6717 EUVD-2024-47756GHSA-5mqx-rpxv-mvxjGO-2026-4278

Nomad Vulnerable to Allocation Directory Path Escape Through Archive Unpacking

Published Jul 23, 2024 · Updated Aug 1, 2024 · Assigned by HashiCorp

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
HashiCorp Nomad < 1.8.2 1.8.2
HashiCorp Nomad Enterprise < 1.8.2 1.8.2

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS nomad No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS nomad No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260114T191543-150000.1.137.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0142-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/hashicorp/nomad < 1.8.2 1.8.2 GHSA-5mqx-rpxv-mvxj
Go github.com/hashicorp/nomad < 1.11.1 1.11.1 GO-2026-4278

Advisories 2

References