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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2020-7218 json

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in HashiCorp Nomad

published 2020-01-31 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-h43v-26r7-7j4c , GO-2022-0840 , EUVD-2021-1093

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.5%
EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 73%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/hashicorp/nomad 0.10.3
  • hashicorp nomad 0.10.3
  • nomad Alpine 3.18, Alpine 3.17, Alpine 3.16 +3 more 0.10.3-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2020-7218

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Exploit prediction

1.47% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 73% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/hashicorp/nomad
<0.10.3
0.10.3

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

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