CVE-2026-27806
Fleet Affected by Local Privilege Escalation via Tcl Command Injection in Orbit
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
2th
Fleet is open source device management software. Prior to 4.81.1, the Orbit agent's FileVault disk encryption key rotation flow on collects a local user's password via a GUI dialog and interpolates it directly into a Tcl/expect script executed via exec.Command("expect", "-c", script). Because the password is inserted into Tcl brace-quoted send {%s}, a password containing } terminates the literal and injects arbitrary Tcl commands. Since Orbit runs as root, this allows a local unprivileged user to escalate to root privileges. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.81.1.
| CWE | CWE-78 |
| Vendor | fleetdm |
| Product | fleet |
| Published | Apr 8, 2026 |
| Last Updated | Apr 9, 2026 |
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CVSS v3 Breakdown
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Affected Versions
fleetdm / fleet
< 4.81.1