🛡️ CVE-2024-12678 on Ubuntu — nomad
Description
Nomad Community and Nomad Enterprise ("Nomad") allocations are vulnerable to privilege escalation within a namespace through unredacted workload identity tokens. This vulnerability, identified as CVE-2024-12678, is fixed in Nomad Community Edition 1.9.4 and Nomad Enterprise 1.9.4, 1.8.8, and 1.7.16.
Distribution advisory
This page covers CVE-2024-12678 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 none, availability none.
Affected software and timeline
Affected software: nomad. Published on 20 December 2024 and last revised on 24 October 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.
CVE-2024-12678 on other distributions
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Details
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected Packages
| Software | From version | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| nomad | — | — |
References
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