Nomad's exec2 task driver vulnerable to arbitrary file read/write on client host through symlink attack
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 6epss 0.1%
exploitation probability
0.1%top 97% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
HashiCorp Nomad’s exec2 task driver prior to 0.1.2 is vulnerable to arbitrary file read and write on the client host as the Nomad process user through a symlink attack. This vulnerability (CVE-2026-8052) is fixed in version 0.1.2 of the exec2 task driver.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
Affected products
HashiCorp · Shared library