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title: "CVE-2026-119168: HashiCorp Nomad - Privilege Escalation"
description: "HashiCorp Nomad and Nomad Enterprise < 2.1.0, 1.11.12, 1.10.18 contain a symlink following vulnerability during same-client allocation data migration, letting malicious workloads change host directory permissions and ownership, potentially leading to privilege escalation, exploit requires malicious workload execution."
url: https://panop.io/threat-heartbeat/CVE-2026-119168/
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# CVE-2026-119168 HashiCorp Nomad - Privilege Escalation

HashiCorp Nomad and Nomad Enterprise < 2.1.0, 1.11.12, 1.10.18 contain a symlink following vulnerability during same-client allocation data migration, letting malicious workloads change host directory permissions and ownership, potentially leading to privilege escalation, exploit requires malicious workload execution.

CVSS base score 8.8 /10

High

CISA KEV

Not listed

Public exploit

None known

Authentication

Required

EPSS

0.13% chance of exploitation in 30 days

[View the NVD record ↗](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-119168)

## Details

Type

Privilege Escalation

Impact

Privilege Escalation, Data Tampering, Information Disclosure

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Published

29 October 2026

Updated

31 October 2026

Weakness

[CWE-59](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/59.html)

## Vendor fix

Update to Nomad 2.1.0, Nomad Enterprise 2.1.0, 1.11.12, or 1.10.18.

Patching closes this CVE. It does not tell you which of your systems run the affected version, or what else is exposed alongside them.

## References

- [https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-119168](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-119168)
- [https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-53-nomad-allocation-data-migration-may-allow-host-directory-permission-modification-via-symlink-following/77931](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-53-nomad-allocation-data-migration-may-allow-host-directory-permission-modification-via-symlink-following/77931)

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