UBUNTU-CVE-2026-119168

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2026-119168

    Published: 29 Oct 2026Last Modified: 6 Nov 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2026-119168

    Summary:

    Details: HashiCorp Nomad and Nomad Enterprise are vulnerable to symlink following during same-client allocation data migration that may allow a malicious workload to change permissions and ownership of host directories. This could allow unauthorized access to host data or modification of host files, potentially leading to privilege escalation. This vulnerability (CVE-2026-119168) is fixed in Nomad 2.1.1 and Nomad Enterprise 2.1.0, 1.11.12, and 1.10.18.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-119168, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-119168, https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-53-nomad-allocation-data-migration-may-allow-host-directory-permission-modification-via-symlink-following/77931

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: nomad

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/nomad?arch=source&distro=focal

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.8.7+dfsg1-1ubuntu1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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