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GHSA-5C56-JFHX-4GCM

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-07-08 21:30 – Updated: 2026-07-08 21:30

Details

HashiCorp Nomad and Nomad Enterprise are vulnerable to a sandbox escape in the Docker task driver that may allow a job submitter to bind-mount a host path into a container even when volume bind mounts are disabled, potentially leading to reading and writing files on the host. This vulnerability, CVE-2026-14891, is fixed in Nomad Community Edition 2.0.4 and Nomad Enterprise 2.0.4, 1.11.8, and 1.10.14.

Severity

8.7 (High)


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

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CVE-2026-14891 (GCVE-0-2026-14891)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-08 20:09 – Updated: 2026-07-08 20:36

Title

Nomad vulnerable to sandbox escape in Docker task driver

Summary

Severity

8.7 (High)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)

CWE

CWE-59 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access (Link Following)

Assigner

HashiCorp

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-21-nom…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
HashiCorp	Nomad	Affected: 0.4.1 , < 2.0.4 (semver)
HashiCorp	Nomad Enterprise	Affected: 0.4.1 , < 2.0.4 (semver)

Credits

This issue was reported to HashiCorp by Volkan Kutal, GitHub handle @KutalVolkan.

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GHSA-5C56-JFHX-4GCM

CVE-2026-14891 (GCVE-0-2026-14891)

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