Nomad ACLs Can Not Deny Access to Workload's Own Variables

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-1296",
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    "title": "Nomad ACLs Can Not Deny Access to Workload's Own Variables",
    "summary": "HashiCorp Nomad and Nomad Enterprise 1.4.0 up to 1.5.0 did not correctly enforce deny policies applied to a workload’s variables. Fixed in 1.4.6 and 1.5.1.",
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:24.786481199Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2023-09-nomad-acls-can-not-deny-access-to-workloads-own-variables/51390",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/1xxx/CVE-2023-1296.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1296",
        "https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad"
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 491574,
  "published_at": "2023-03-14T14:45:24.074+00:00"
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