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SCA: security update for github.com/hashicorp/nomad (GHSA-cj2h-ww36-v932)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 413933

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - HashiCorp Nomad and Nomad Enterprise up to 0.10.2 incorrectly validated role/region associated with TLS
 certificates used for mTLS RPC, and were susceptible to privilege escalation. Fixed in 0.10.3.
 (CVE-2020-7956)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cj2h-ww36-v932

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 413933

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 1/27/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.13

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-7956

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/18/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/31/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-7956

cwe: CWE-295