Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU24939

Resource exhaustion in Nomad Enterprise and Nomad - CVE-2020-7218

Published: February 5, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU24939

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2020-7218

CWE-ID: CWE-400

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to unbounded resource usage via HTTP and RPC services. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and crash the target server.

Affected software

Nomad Enterprise
Nomad
nomad (Alpine package)

How to mitigate CVE-2020-7218

Install updates from vendor's website.

Nomad Enterprise - update to 0.10.3
Nomad - update to 0.10.3
nomad (Alpine package) - update to 0.10.3-r0

External References

https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/7002
https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/category/nomad/

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