CVE-2026-27806

Fleet Affected by Local Privilege Escalation via Tcl Command Injection in Orbit

Published Apr 8, 2026 CVSS 3.1 · 7.8 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-rphv-h674-5hp2 Fleet Affected by Local Privilege Escalation via Tcl Command Injection in Orbit
History
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CPEs cpe:2.3:a:fleetdm:fleet:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

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First Time appeared Fleetdm
Fleetdm fleet
Vendors & Products Fleetdm
Fleetdm fleet
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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.
Title Fleet Affected by Local Privilege Escalation via Tcl Command Injection in Orbit
Weaknesses CWE-78
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Apr 9, 2026, 2:24 PM
Reserved
Feb 24, 2026, 2:31 AM
Status
Analyzed
Published
Apr 8, 2026, 7:25 PM
Modified
Jul 25, 2026, 11:10 AM