Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-3744

High

Published: 13 May 2025

Published
13 May 2025
Modified
15 May 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 7.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0025 48.7th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-3744 is a high-severity Incorrect Privilege Assignment (CWE-266) vulnerability in Hashicorp Nomad. Its CVSS base score is 7.6 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 48.7th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Nomad Enterprise (“Nomad”) jobs using the policy override option are bypassing the mandatory sentinel policies. This vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-3744, is fixed in Nomad Enterprise 1.10.1, 1.9.9, and 1.8.13.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

hashicorp
nomad
1.10.0 · ≤ 1.8.13 · 1.9.0 — 1.9.9

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-266

Designation of a manager and policy dissemination ensures privileges are assigned according to defined roles.

addresses: CWE-266

Regular reviews catch incorrect privilege assignments to users, roles, or processes.

addresses: CWE-266

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

addresses: CWE-266

The control requires explicit definition of separated access authorizations, making incorrect privilege assignments that bundle conflicting duties harder to implement.

addresses: CWE-266

Ensures privileges are assigned only as necessary rather than incorrectly over-granted.

References