How severe is CVE-2024-12678?

CVE-2024-12678 has a CVSS v3 score of 6.5 (MEDIUM).

CVE-2024-12678

Name: nomad
Author: hashicorp

6.5MEDIUM

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-

Published: 12/20/2024Updated: 12/12/2025

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.

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Affected Products

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References

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2024-29-nomad-allocations-vulnerable-to-privilege-escalation-within-a-namespace-using-unredacted-workload-identity-token/72119
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