{"id":"CVE-2026-8052","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-8052","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T01:10:22.615Z","title":"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.","description":"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.","published":"2026-05-12T20:16:47.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-26T17:10:03.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"security@hashicorp.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":6,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-59"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00129,"percentile":0.02477,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.13%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-13-nomads-exec2-task-driver-vulnerable-to-arbitrary-file-read-write-on-client-host-through-symlink-attack/77415","source":"security@hashicorp.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-8052","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}