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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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-02-24 | Published 2026-04-08 | Updated 2026-04-09 | Assigner GitHub_M




HIGH: 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Problem types

CWE-78: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')

Product status

< 4.81.1
affected

References

github.com/.../fleet/security/advisories/GHSA-rphv-h674-5hp2

cve.org (CVE-2026-27806)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-27806)

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