CVE-2025-1296 Nomad Exposes Sensitive Workload Identity and Client Secret Token in Audit Logs

What is CVE-2025-1296?

CVE-2025-1296 is a medium-severity vulnerability in HashiCorp Nomad, published on 10 Mar 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Nomad Community and Nomad Enterprise (“Nomad”) are vulnerable to unintentional exposure of the workload identity token and client secret token in audit logs. This vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-1296, is fixed in Nomad Community Edition 1.9.7 and Nomad Enterprise 1.9.7, 1.8.11, and 1.7.19.

Weakness: CWE-532

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-1296?

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-2025-1296?

Upgrade github.com/hashicorp/nomad to 1.9.7 or later.

Is CVE-2025-1296 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-1296 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-c3q9-q986-vrwh, GO-2025-3510, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-1296.