GHSA-rx97-6c62-55mf CVE-2025-4922 GO-2025-3758
Hashicorp Nomad Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability
- Severity
- 8.1 / 10
- High · CVSS 3.1
- Exploit chance (EPSS)
- 0.51%
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Higher than 43.50% of scored vulnerabilities.
- Known exploited
- No
- Not in CISA's catalog
- Weakness
- CWE-266 Incorrect Privilege Assignment
- Fix
1.10.2- Upgrade github.com/hashicorp/nomad to this version or later
Description
Nomad Community and Nomad Enterprise (“Nomad”) prefix-based ACL policy lookup can lead to incorrect rule application and shadowing. This vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-4922, is fixed in Nomad Community Edition 1.10.2 and Nomad Enterprise 1.10.2, 1.9.10, and 1.8.14.
Affected versions
Go
| Package | Vulnerable | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| github.com/hashicorp/nomad | < 1.10.2 |
1.10.2 |
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 → 1.10.2
- go
go get github.com/hashicorp/nomad@v1.10.2 && go mod tidy
Severity breakdown
CVSS 3.1 8.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- None
Weakness
CWE-266: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A product incorrectly assigns a privilege to a particular actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.
How to prevent it
- Architecture and Design, Operation: Very carefully manage the setting, management, and handling of privileges. Explicitly manage trust zones in the software.
- 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.
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Timeline
- Published
- Last updated by the source
- Latest EPSS score
Related advisories
| Advisory | Severity | Why it's related |
|---|---|---|
| GHSA-hx53-77qj-8663 HashiCorp Nomad vulnerable to a path traversal | High | Also affects github.com/hashicorp/nomad |
| GHSA-3934-423w-4jq3 HashiCorp Nomad vulnerable to symlink attack | Medium | Also affects github.com/hashicorp/nomad |
| GHSA-c3q9-q986-vrwh Nomad is vulnerable to unintentional exposure of the workload identity token and client secret token in audit logs | Medium | Also affects github.com/hashicorp/nomad |
| GHSA-hr68-hvgv-xxqf Hashicorp Nomad Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability | Medium | Also affects github.com/hashicorp/nomad |
| GHSA-2w5v-x29g-jw7j Hashicorp Nomad Incorrect Authorization vulnerability | High | Also affects github.com/hashicorp/nomad |
| GHSA-25qx-vfw2-fw8r Nomad Vulnerable to Allocation Directory Escape On Non-Existing File Paths Through Archive Unpacking | Medium | Also affects github.com/hashicorp/nomad |
| GHSA-5mqx-rpxv-mvxj HashiCorp Nomad is vulnerable to path escape through archive unpacking during migration | High | Also affects github.com/hashicorp/nomad |
| GHSA-c866-8gpw-p3mv HashiCorp Nomad vulnerable to symlink attacks | High | Also affects github.com/hashicorp/nomad |
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