6.5

CVE-2024-12678: Nomad Allocations Vulnerable To Privilege Escalation Within A Namespace Using Unredacted Workload Identity Tokens

Analyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2024-12678GHSA-hr68-hvgv-xxqfGO-2024-3354
Published 20-12-2024Last modified 20-12-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-12678 is a medium (CVSS 6.5) Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in hashicorp nomad. EPSS estimates a 0.53% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 44.8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 6.5, network access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
6.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.53%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 2 · Related 2
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14608-1SUSE-SU-2025:0060-1

Timeline

  1. 20-12-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 20-12-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.53%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

45%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.53% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: network-reachable, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Hashicorp2 products
  • nomad≥ 1.4.0, < 1.7.16 | ≥ 1.4.0, < 1.9.4 | ≥ 1.8.0, < 1.8.8 | ≥ 1.9.0, < 1.9.4
  • nomad enterprise≥ 1.4.0, < 1.9.4
Github.com/hashicorp1 product
  • nomad< 1.9.4
Ubuntu1 product
  • nomadAll versions (No fix recorded)

3 vendors · 4 products

References

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