Is CVE-2024-12678 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2024-12678 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2024-12678?

CVE-2024-12678 has a CVSS v3 base score of 6.5 (MEDIUM).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2024-12678?

CVE-2024-12678 has an EPSS score of 0.53% (41th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2024-12678?

Upgrade HashiCorp Nomad to 1.7.16 or later.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2024-12678

MEDIUM

6.5

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

Nomad Community and Nomad Enterprise ("Nomad") allocations are vulnerable to privilege escalation within a namespace through unredacted workload identity tokens. This vulnerability, identified as CVE-2024-12678, is fixed in Nomad Community Edition 1.9.4 and Nomad Enterprise 1.9.4, 1.8.8, and 1.7.16.

CWE-266

How to fix

Remediation Available

HashiCorp NomadWindows application

Affected:1.4.0 1.7.16Fixed in:1.7.16HashiCorp

Affected:1.4.0 1.9.4Fixed in:1.9.4HashiCorp

Affected:1.8.0 1.8.8Fixed in:1.8.8HashiCorp

Affected:1.9.0 1.9.4Fixed in:1.9.4HashiCorp

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredLow

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh

IntegrityNone

AvailabilityNone

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Exploit Intelligence

0.53%probability of exploitation in 30 days

41stpercentile

Moderate risk: more likely to be exploited than 41% of all known CVEs.

References

Vendor Advisory1

discuss.hashicorp.com

Related Vulnerabilities

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CVE-2024-28000	Critical	9.8	68%	-	Fix
CVE-2025-27007	Critical	9.8	51%	-	-
CVE-2025-47539	Critical	9.8	31%	-	Fix
CVE-2022-20759	High	8.8	28%	-	Fix
CVE-2024-13106	Medium	5.3	27%	-	-
CVE-2024-3013	Medium	6.3	23%	-	-

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2025-12-12.