UBUNTU-CVE-2026-8052

Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-8052
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-8052.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-8052
Upstream
  • CVE-2026-8052
Published
2026-05-12T20:16:00Z
Modified
2026-05-20T22:03:07.803895110Z
Severity
  • 6.0 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

HashiCorp Nomad’s exec2 task driver prior to 0.1.2 is vulnerable to arbitrary file read and write on the client host as the Nomad process user through a symlink attack. This vulnerability (CVE-2026-8052) is fixed in version 0.1.2 of the exec2 task driver.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / nomad

Package

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

Affected ranges

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

Affected versions

0.*
0.4.0+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "0.4.0+dfsg-1",
            "binary_name": "nomad"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-8052.json"

Ubuntu:20.04:LTS / nomad

Package

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

Affected ranges

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

Affected versions

0.*
0.8.7+dfsg1-1ubuntu1

Ecosystem specific

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

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-8052.json"