What is CVE-2020-7956?

CVE-2020-7956 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Hashicorp Nomad, classified under Improper Certificate Validation. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2020-01-31.

How severe is CVE-2020-7956?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Hashicorp Nomad

CVE-2020-7956

HashiCorp Nomad and Nomad Enterprise up to 0.10.2 incorrectly validated role/region associated with TLS certificates used for mTLS RPC, and were susceptible to privilege escalation. Fixed in 0.10.3.

Vulnerability class: Improper Certificate Validation

EPSS: 0.010 (58.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Hashicorp Nomad
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-295 — Improper Certificate Validation

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-7956?: CVE-2020-7956 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Hashicorp Nomad, classified under Improper Certificate Validation. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2020-01-31.
How severe is CVE-2020-7956?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.