CVE-2026-27806 HIGH

CVE-2026-27806: Fleet Affected by Local Privilege Escalation via Tcl Command Injection in Orbit

Vendor Fleetdm
Product fleet
Weakness CWE-78
Published April 8, 2026
Last update April 9, 2026

CVSS base score

7.8/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Confidentiality High
Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

April 8, 2026 CVE published
April 9, 2026 Record updated