UBUNTU-CVE-2026-119168

Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-119168
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-119168.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-119168
Upstream
Published
2026-10-29T19:17:00Z
Modified
2026-11-06T13:51:39Z
Severity
  • 8.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

HashiCorp Nomad and Nomad Enterprise are vulnerable to symlink following during same-client allocation data migration that may allow a malicious workload to change permissions and ownership of host directories. This could allow unauthorized access to host data or modification of host files, potentially leading to privilege escalation. This vulnerability (CVE-2026-119168) is fixed in Nomad 2.1.1 and Nomad Enterprise 2.1.0, 1.11.12, and 1.10.18.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:20.04:LTS / nomad

Package

Name
nomad
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/nomad?arch=source&distro=focal

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

0.*
0.8.7+dfsg1-1ubuntu1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "nomad",
            "binary_version": "0.8.7+dfsg1-1ubuntu1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-119168.json"