CVE-2024-6717 Nomad Vulnerable to Allocation Directory Path Escape Through Archive Unpacking

What is CVE-2024-6717?

CVE-2024-6717 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in HashiCorp Nomad, published on 23 Jul 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

HashiCorp Nomad and Nomad Enterprise 1.6.12 up to 1.7.9, and 1.8.1 archive unpacking during migration is vulnerable to path escaping of the allocation directory. This vulnerability, CVE-2024-6717, is fixed in Nomad 1.6.13, 1.7.10, and 1.8.2.

Weakness: CWE-610

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-6717?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including github.com/hashicorp/nomad. It affects 1 product.

Products include Hashicorp Nomad.

How do I fix CVE-2024-6717?

Upgrade github.com/hashicorp/nomad to a fixed version for your release line: 1.11.1 or 1.8.2.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2024-6717 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-6717 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in HashiCorp Nomad

• CVE-2023-1782 Nomad Unauthenticated Client Agent HTTP Request Privilege Escalation Critical 10.0
• CVE-2022-30324 Privilege escalation in Hashicorp Nomad Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7956 Improper Certificate Validation in HashiCorp Nomad Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-12618 Hashicorp Nomad Access Control Issues Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-27195 Use After Free in HashiCorp Nomad Critical 9.1

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-5mqx-rpxv-mvxj, GO-2026-4278, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-6717.