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CVE-2022-24685

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-02-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-770

Description

HashiCorp Nomad and Nomad Enterprise 1.0.17, 1.1.11, and 1.2.5 allow invalid HCL for the jobs parse endpoint, which may cause excessive CPU usage. Fixed in 1.0.18, 1.1.12, and 1.2.6.

Affected products

• HashiCorp Nomad Enterprise: from 1.0.0 through 1.0.17; from 1.1.0 before 1.1.12; from 1.2.0 before 1.2.6 — fixed in 1.1.12, 1.2.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: HashiCorp Nomad Enterprise 1.1.12, 1.2.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://discuss.hashicorp.com
• https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2022-03-nomad-malformed-job-parsing-results-in-excessive-cpu-usage/
• https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2022-03-nomad-malformed-job-parsing-results-in-excessive-cpu-usage/35561
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220331-0007/
• https://discuss.hashicorp.com
• https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2022-03-nomad-malformed-job-parsing-results-in-excessive-cpu-usage/
• https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2022-03-nomad-malformed-job-parsing-results-in-excessive-cpu-usage/35561
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220331-0007/

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