🛡️ CVE-2023-1299 on Ubuntu — nomad

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV

N/A

CVSS Score

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Description

HashiCorp Nomad and Nomad Enterprise 1.5.0 allow a job submitter to escalate to management-level privileges using workload identity and task API. Fixed in 1.5.1.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2023-1299 as tracked by Ubuntu, for the package nomad. No fixed version has been recorded for this distribution yet.

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 unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Affected software

UBUNTU-CVE-2023-1299 is recorded against 1 package.

nomad

Timeline and source

Published on 14 March 2023 and last revised on 24 October 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

ubuntu.com (Report)
discuss.hashicorp.com (Report)
www.cve.org (Report)

CVE-2023-1299 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Unknown

CVSS Score N/A

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

CWE N/A

Public Exploit ✅ No

Source OSV

Published 2023-03-14

Updated 2026-06-08

Modified 2025-10-24

Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software	From version	Fixed in
nomad	—	—

References

REPORT https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-1299

REPORT https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2023-08-nomad-job-submitter-privilege-escalation-using-workload-identity/51389

REPORT https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-1299

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