CVE-2026-6959Disclosure

LOWCVSS 6.0 · MEDIUM

Signal is active with 1 mentions in latest observed window

Immediate actions

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NVD description

HashiCorp Nomad and Nomad Enterprise prior to 2.0.1 are vulnerable to arbitrary file read and write on the client host as the Nomad process user through a symlink attack. This vulnerability (CVE-2026-6959) is fixed in Nomad 2.0.1, 1.11.5 and 1.10.11.

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Sources & remediation

Other references

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-14-nomad-arbitrary-file-read-write-on-client-host-through-symlink-attack/77416

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-59

Priority

LOW

Exploitation

NONE

PoC

NONE

Patch

NONE

Momentum

NONE

Threat summary

1 mentions across 1 observed day

What's happening

Technical details provided in 1 signal
Disclosure: 1 classified signal
1 total mentions across 1 day

Deep dive

Activity timeline1 mentions / 1d

Signal classification1 categories

Disclosure

1100.0%

Referenced assets1 URL

By indicator

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-6959

Full discourse1 post

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CVE-2026-6959 HashiCorp Nomad and Nomad Enterprise prior to 2.0.1 are vulnerable to arbitrary file read and write on the client host as the Nomad process user through a symlink attac… https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-6959
Post summary
The post discloses that CVE-2026-6959 allows arbitrary file read/write via symlink attacks on HashiCorp Nomad prior to version 2.0.1, but does not provide a PoC, exploit, active exploitation claim, or patch guidance.
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