Nomad Exposes Sensitive Workload Identity and Client Secret Token in Audit Logs

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-1296",
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    "title": "Nomad Exposes Sensitive Workload Identity and Client Secret Token in Audit Logs",
    "summary": "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.",
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:37.022032274Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-04-nomad-exposes-sensitive-workload-identity-and-client-secret-token-in-audit-logs/73737",
        "https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/1xxx/CVE-2025-1296.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-1296"
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
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  "published_at": "2025-03-10T18:02:21.579+00:00"
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