Symlink Attack Affecting github.com/hashicorp/nomad package, versions >=0.9.0-beta1 <2.0.1
Threat Intelligence
The probability is the direct output of the EPSS model, and conveys an overall sense of the threat of exploitation in the wild. The percentile measures the EPSS probability relative to all known EPSS scores. Note: This data is updated daily, relying on the latest available EPSS model version. Check out the EPSS documentation for more details.
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- published25 May 2026
- disclosed12 May 2026
- creditAlex Manson
Introduced: 12 May 2026
CVE-2026-6959 Â (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade github.com/hashicorp/nomad to version 2.0.1 or higher.
Overview
github.com/hashicorp/nomad is a workload orchestrator that can deploy a mix of microservice, batch, containerized, and non-containerized applications.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Symlink Attack via shared task log directory. An attacker can read and write arbitrary files on the host file system by replacing the FIFO with a symlink.