CVE-2024-12678: Hashicorp Nomad

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Nomad Community and Nomad Enterprise ("Nomad") allocations are vulnerable to privilege escalation within a namespace through unredacted workload identity tokens. This vulnerability, identified as CVE-2024-12678, is fixed in Nomad Community Edition 1.9.4 and Nomad Enterprise 1.9.4, 1.8.8, and 1.7.16.

Affected products

• Hashicorp Nomad: from 1.4.0, before 1.7.16 (fixed in 1.7.16); from 1.4.0, before 1.9.4 (fixed in 1.9.4); from 1.8.0, before 1.8.8 (fixed in 1.8.8); from 1.9.0, before 1.9.4 (fixed in 1.9.4)

Published 2024-12-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.