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GHSA-gwmc-6795-qghj CVE-2022-24686 GO-2022-0600

HashiCorp Nomad Artifact Download Race Condition

Medium Go
Severity
5.9 / 10
Medium · CVSS 3.1
Exploit chance (EPSS)
0.86%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Higher than 58.49% of scored vulnerabilities.
Known exploited
No
Not in CISA's catalog
Weakness
CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
Fix
1.0.18
Upgrade github.com/hashicorp/nomad to this version or later

Description

HashiCorp Nomad and Nomad Enterprise 0.3.0 through 1.0.17, 1.1.11, and 1.2.5 artifact download functionality has a race condition such that the Nomad client agent could download the wrong artifact into the wrong destination. This issue is fixed in 1.0.18, 1.1.12, and 1.2.6.

Affected versions

Go

PackageVulnerableFixed in
github.com/hashicorp/nomad
>= 0.3.0, < 1.0.18
1.0.18
github.com/hashicorp/nomad
>= 1.1.0, < 1.1.12
1.1.12
github.com/hashicorp/nomad
>= 1.2.0, < 1.2.6
1.2.6
github.com/hashicorp/nomad
>= 0.3.0, < 1.0.18
>= 1.1.0, < 1.1.12
>= 1.2.0, < 1.2.6
1.0.18
1.1.12
1.2.6

How to fix

Move to the fixed version or later with your package manager, update the lockfile, and run your tests. If the package only arrives through another dependency, upgrade that dependency first. If none of its releases pulls a fixed version yet, force the version with your package manager's override.

github.com/hashicorp/nomad Go → 1.0.18

go
go get github.com/hashicorp/nomad@v1.0.18 && go mod tidy

Severity breakdown

CVSS 3.1 5.9

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None

Weakness

CWE-362: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

The product contains a concurrent code sequence that requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence operating concurrently.

How to prevent it
  • Architecture and Design: In languages that support it, use synchronization primitives. Only wrap these around critical code to minimize the impact on performance.
  • Architecture and Design: Use thread-safe capabilities such as the data access abstraction in Spring.
  • Architecture and Design: Minimize the usage of shared resources in order to remove as much complexity as possible from the control flow and to reduce the likelihood of unexpected conditions occurring. Additionally, this will minimize the amount of synchronization necessary and may even help to reduce the likelihood of a denial of service where an attacker may be able to repeatedly trigger a critical section (CWE-400).
  • Implementation: When using multithreading and operating on shared variables, only use thread-safe functions.
  • Implementation: Use atomic operations on shared variables. Be wary of innocent-looking constructs such as "x++". This may appear atomic at the code layer, but it is actually non-atomic at the instruction layer, since it involves a read, followed by a computation, followed by a write.
  • Implementation: Use a mutex if available, but be sure to avoid related weaknesses such as CWE-412.
  • Implementation: Avoid double-checked locking (CWE-609) and other implementation errors that arise when trying to avoid the overhead of synchronization.
  • Implementation: Disable interrupts or signals over critical parts of the code, but also make sure that the code does not go into a large or infinite loop.
  • Implementation: Use the volatile type modifier for critical variables to avoid unexpected compiler optimization or reordering. This does not necessarily solve the synchronization problem, but it can help.
  • Architecture and Design, Operation: Run your code using the lowest privileges that are required to accomplish the necessary tasks [REF-76]. If possible, create isolated accounts with limited privileges that are only used for a single task. That way, a successful attack will not immediately give the attacker access to the rest of the software or its environment. For example, database applications rarely need to run as the database administrator, especially in day-to-day operations.

References

Timeline

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Medium Also affects github.com/hashicorp/nomad
GHSA-2w5v-x29g-jw7j
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High Also affects github.com/hashicorp/nomad
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