CVE-2019-14802 — HashiCorp Nomad 0

HashiCorp Nomad 0.5.0 through 0.9.4 (fixed in 0.9.5) reveals unintended environment variables to the rendering task during template rendering, aka GHSA-6hv3-7c34-4hx8. This applies to nomad/client/allocrunner/taskrunner/template.

01What is this vulnerability?

HashiCorp Nomad 0.5.0 through 0.9.4 (fixed in 0.9.5) reveals unintended environment variables to the rendering task during template rendering, aka GHSA-6hv3-7c34-4hx8. This applies to nomad/client/allocrunner/taskrunner/template.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2022-12-26T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2025-04-14T17:23:01.368Z

09References

• www.hashicorp.com — https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/category/nomad
• advisories.gitlab.com — https://advisories.gitlab.com/advisory/advgo_github_com_hashicorp_nomad_client_a…