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SCA: security update for github.com/hashicorp/nomad (GHSA-3934-423w-4jq3)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 442192

Description

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

 - HashiCorp Nomad and Nomad Enterprise prior to 2.0.1 are vulnerable to arbitrary file read and write on the
 client host as the Nomad process user through a symlink attack. This vulnerability (CVE-2026-6959) is
 fixed in Nomad 2.0.1, 1.11.5 and 1.10.11. (CVE-2026-6959)

Solution

Update the github.com/hashicorp/nomad library and its related packages to version 1.11.0-rc.1.0.20260512123500-2a09fd62c238 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3934-423w-4jq3

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 442192

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 5/19/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

Percentile: 51.26

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-6959

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/12/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/12/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-6959

cwe: CWE-59