# CVE-2024-12678: Nomad Allocations Vulnerable To Privilege Escalation Within A Namespace Using Unredacted Workload Identity Tokens

> CVE-2024-12678: Nomad Allocations Vulnerable To Privilege Escalation Within A Namespace Using Unredacted Workload Identity Tokens. CVSS 6.5 (CVSS 3.1).

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2024-12678
Last updated: 2026-06-17T07:00:16Z

- Published: 2024-12-20 01:49 UTC · Updated: 2026-06-17 07:00 UTC · Assigner: HashiCorp
- CVSS: 6.5 (CVSS 3.1) · Severity: Medium · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- EPSS: 0.53%, 44th percentile (scored 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV: no
- CWE: CWE-266

## Description

Nomad Community and Nomad Enterprise ("Nomad") allocations are vulnerable to privilege escalation within a namespace through unredacted workload identity tokens. This vulnerability, identified as CVE-2024-12678, is fixed in Nomad Community Edition 1.9.4 and Nomad Enterprise 1.9.4, 1.8.8, and 1.7.16.

## Affected vendors and products

- HashiCorp: Nomad
- HashiCorp: Nomad Enterprise

## Tracked companies

- [HashiCorp](https://rewindex.com/company/hashicorp.md)

## References

- [CVE record on cve.org](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-12678)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12678)
- [https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2024-29-nomad-allocations-vulnerable-to-privilege-escalation-within-a-namespace-using-unredacted-workload-identity-token/72119](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2024-29-nomad-allocations-vulnerable-to-privilege-escalation-within-a-namespace-using-unredacted-workload-identity-token/72119)

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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2024-12678 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2024-12678.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/cves/CVE-2024-12678 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-10-26T03:13:02.197Z