CVE-2026-7474 PUBLISHED

Nomad vulnerable to path traversal in dynamic host volume which may lead to code execution

Assigner: HashiCorp
Reserved: 29.04.2026 Published: 12.05.2026 Updated: 13.05.2026

HashiCorp Nomad and Nomad Enterprise prior to 2.0.1 are vulnerable to code execution on the client host through a path traversal attack. This vulnerability (CVE-2026-7474) is fixed in Nomad 2.0.1, 1.11.5 and 1.10.11.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 8.8

Attack Vector	Network	Scope	Unchanged
Attack Complexity	Low	Confidentiality Impact	High
Privileges Required	Low	Integrity Impact	High
User Interaction	None	Availability Impact	High

CVSS 3.1

Product Status

Vendor	HashiCorp
Product	Nomad
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 1.10.0 to 2.0.1 (excl.)

Vendor	HashiCorp
Product	Nomad Enterprise
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 1.10.0 to 2.0.1 (excl.)

Credits

This issue was reported to HashiCorp by Adrian Denkiewicz at Doyensec in collaboration with Claude and Anthropic Research

References

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-15-nomad-vulnerable-to-path-traversal-in-dynamic-host-volume-which-may-lead-to-code-execution/77417

Problem Types

CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (Path Traversal) CWE

Impacts

CAPEC-126: Path Traversal