What is CVE-2020-7218?

CVE-2020-7218 is a high-severity vulnerability in Hashicorp Nomad, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2020-01-31.

How severe is CVE-2020-7218?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Hashicorp Nomad

CVE-2020-7218

HashiCorp Nomad and Nonad Enterprise up to 0.10.2 HTTP/RPC services allowed unbounded resource usage, and were susceptible to unauthenticated denial of service. Fixed in 0.10.3.

Published 2020-01-31 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.015 (72.6th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 73rd percentile — 72.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.015 · newest: 0.015 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Hashicorp Nomad

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

www.hashicorp.com/blog/category/nomad/ (Vendor Advisory)
github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/7002 (Third Party Advisory, Mitigation, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-7218?: CVE-2020-7218 is a high-severity vulnerability in Hashicorp Nomad, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2020-01-31.
How severe is CVE-2020-7218?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.