Vulnerability Report

CVE-2024-12678

Title: Hashicorp Nomad Auth Bypass

Auth Bypass

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2024-12678.

CWE Category CWE-266

Published Date Dec 20, 2024

Modified Date Dec 12, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.5 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.41%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2024-12678: 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.

Impacted Vendors

jenkins 1

hashicorp 1

Reference Links

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2024-29-nomad-allocations-vulnerable-to-privilege-escalation-within-a-namespace-using-unredacted-workload-identity-token/72119

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2024-12678 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

December 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

December 20, 2024 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK

Complexity LOW

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.