Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-3300

Medium

Published: 20 July 2023

Published
20 July 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0081 74.6th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-3300 is a medium-severity Incorrect Privilege Assignment (CWE-266) vulnerability in Hashicorp Nomad. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 25.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

HashiCorp Nomad and Nomad Enterprise 0.11.0 up to 1.5.6 and 1.4.1 HTTP search API can reveal names of available CSI plugins to unauthenticated users or users without the plugin:read policy. Fixed in 1.6.0, 1.5.7, and 1.4.1.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

hashicorp
nomad
0.11.0 — 1.4.1 · 0.11.0 — 1.4.1 · 1.5.0 — 1.5.6

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-862 CWE-266

Requiring an access control policy ensures authorization checks are defined and applied for critical functions.

addresses: CWE-862 CWE-266

Reviews of access controls detect missing authorization checks on critical functions or resources.

addresses: CWE-266 CWE-862

Explicitly specifying privileges and group/role memberships for accounts reduces the risk of incorrect privilege assignments.

addresses: CWE-862

Documenting permitted unauthenticated actions prevents missing authorization by making all exceptions explicit and subject to organizational review.

addresses: CWE-862

Requiring attribute association with information prevents authorization from being performed without necessary security or privacy context.

addresses: CWE-862

Mandating authorization prior to allowing remote connections addresses missing authorization for remote access.

addresses: CWE-862

Mandating authorization before wireless connections are allowed prevents missing authorization for wireless access.

addresses: CWE-862

The control requires authorization before allowing mobile device connections, directly mitigating missing authorization for system access.

References