Nomad API endpoints leak cross-namespace information
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · None · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-863.
Summary
HashiCorp Nomad from 0.11.0 before 2.1.1 and Nomad Enterprise from 0.11.0 before 2.1.0 are affected. Incorrect authorization (CWE-863) in several read-only API endpoints lets an authenticated user with read permissions in one namespace view information about objects in other namespaces. The attacker needs low privileges and network access.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-11-06
Description from the CNA
HashiCorp Nomad and Nomad Enterprise are vulnerable to cross-namespace authorization bypasses in several read-only API endpoints that may allow an authenticated user with read permissions in one namespace to view information about objects in other namespaces. This vulnerability (CVE-2026-102260) is fixed in Nomad Community Edition 2.1.1 and Nomad Enterprise 2.1.0, 1.11.12, and 1.10.18.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
Nomad Community Edition is fixed in 2.1.1. Nomad Enterprise is fixed in 2.1.0, 1.11.12, and 1.10.18.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-11-06
- Fix · CNA Nomad (HashiCorp) Fixed in 2.1.1
- Fix · CNA Nomad Enterprise (HashiCorp) Fixed in 2.1.0
Fixed in the same release
Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.
- Release ·
HashiCorp Nomad, Nomad Enterprise 2.1.0, 2.1.1
3 records Highest priority Priority LOW 3 LOW
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2026-82717 Symlink following in Nomad lets workloads alter host permissionsPriority LOW 39
- TI-2026-82715 Symlink following in HashiCorp Nomad allows writes outside allocationPriority LOW 35
Vendor assessments
Timeline
- 2026-10-29 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-102260
- 2026-10-29 Alias added: GHSA-v86q-pc4q-725p
- 2026-10-30 Fix available: HashiCorp/[email protected] · CNA
- 2026-10-30 CISA SSVC decision points changed
- 2026-11-06 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
- 2026-11-06 CVSS score added · Red Hat
References
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- TI-2026-13778 terraform-mcp-server vulnerable to cross-tenant credential reuse in streamable-HTTP stateless mode CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
Sources
- CVE-2026-102260 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-102260 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-v86q-pc4q-725p · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-102260 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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