CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-27806

7.8 HIGH Published 2026-04-08 Modified 2026-07-25 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2026-04-08
Last modified
2026-07-25
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-78

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• fleetdm fleet (< 4.81.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-77 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command weakness

References