🛡️ CVE-2024-6717 — nomad

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-610 NVD

8.0

CVSS Score

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Description

HashiCorp Nomad is vulnerable to path escape through archive unpacking during migration

HashiCorp Nomad and Nomad Enterprise 1.6.12 up to 1.7.9, and 1.8.1 archive unpacking during migration is vulnerable to path escaping of the allocation directory. This vulnerability, CVE-2024-6717, is fixed in Nomad 1.6.13, 1.7.10, and 1.8.2.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity high, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-6717 is classified as CWE-610: Externally Controlled Reference to a Resource in Another Sphere. The product uses an externally controlled name or reference that resolves to a resource that is outside of the intended control sphere.

Affected software

CVE-2024-6717 is recorded against 2 packages.

github.com/hashicorp/nomad
nomad

Timeline and source

Published on 23 July 2024 and last revised on 3 March 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
discuss.hashicorp.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)

CVE-2024-6717 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Ubuntu

Details

Severity HIGH

CVSS Score 8.0

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

CWE CWE-610

Public Exploit ✅ No

Source NVD

Published 2024-07-23

Updated 2026-08-12

Modified 2026-03-03

Fix URL https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/pull/27068/commits/d0f4f27dd03e7f9843d7b921ca9f33c257efdfd1

Affected Packages

Software	From version	Fixed in
github.com/hashicorp/nomad	—	—
nomad	—	—

References

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-6717

WEB https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/commit/ef6cdec8847e0698d386d1fd3761743df758ef99

WEB https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2024-15-nomad-vulnerable-to-allocation-directory-path-escape-through-archive-unpacking/68781

PACKAGE https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad

WEB https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/releases/tag/v1.8.2

🔗 NVD 🔗 Mitre ✅ Fix / Advisory

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