Critical severity · published Jan 31, 2020
CVE-2020-7956
HashiCorp Nomad and Nomad Enterprise up to 0.10.2 incorrectly validated role/region associated with TLS certificates used for mTLS RPC, and were susceptible to privilege…
9.8
CVSS
1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
HashiCorp Nomad and Nomad Enterprise up to 0.10.2 incorrectly validated role/region associated with TLS certificates used for mTLS RPC, and were susceptible to privilege escalation. Fixed in 0.10.3.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.0% · higher than 62% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
NO
Nomad · Hashicorp
before 0.10.3; before 0.10.3 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7956
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-7956
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/7003
Vendor Advisory
https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/category/nomad/
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