Fleet has observer-level enrollment secret extraction via ORDER BY oracle on labels host-listing endpoint
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Information disclosure, SQL injection
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · None · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-200 and CWE-89.
Summary
Fleet is an open-source device management platform built on osquery. In versions up to and including 4.84.1, the labels host-listing endpoint (GET /api/v1/fleet/labels/{id}/hosts) allowed an authenticated user with the lowest-privilege Observer role to extract host enrollment secrets through a sort-order oracle. The endpoint accepted a user-supplied order_key parameter that was not validated against a column allowlist, so an attacker with Global or Team Observer access could set the sort column to a sensitive field such as h.node_key and combine it with the cursor-based after parameter to binary-search the value one character at a time; the targeted value never appeared in the response, but the presence or absence of results revealed each character. Because node_key and orbit_node_key are the long-lived shared secrets that osquery and Orbit agents use to authenticate to the Fleet server, an attacker who reconstructed them could impersonate enrolled hosts, submit fabricated query results and inventory, retrieve pending scripts and MDM commands, and poison compliance and policy results across the deployment. This issue is fixed in version 4.84.2.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| fleetdm | fleet | before 4.84.2 | 4.84.2 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | github.com/fleetdm/fleet/v4 (Go) | before 4.84.2 | 4.84.2 | Patch available | GHSA-vxm7-9x8v-8gm4 |
- fleet Vendorfleetdm Affected before 4.84.2 Fixed in 4.84.2 Patch available CNA
- github.com/fleetdm/fleet/v4 (Go) Vendor— Affected before 4.84.2 Fixed in 4.84.2 Patch available GHSA-vxm7-9x8v-8gm4
Remediation
- Fix · CNA fleet (fleetdm) Fixed in 4.84.2
- Fix · GHSA-vxm7-9x8v-8gm4 github.com/fleetdm/fleet/v4 (Go) Fixed in 4.84.2 Advisory →
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-46370
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-vxm7-9x8v-8gm4
References
More fleetdm vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-29868 Fleet: Cross-Team Policy Data Exposure via Global Policy Read Endpoint CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.3
- TI-2025-20341 SAML authentication vulnerability due to improper SAML response validation CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
- TI-2026-65639 Fleet before 4.87.0 Authentication Bypass via Device Identifiers CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
- TI-2026-18942 Fleet has a JWT signature bypass vulnerability in Azure AD MDM enrollment CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
- TI-2020-16097 SAML authentication vulnerability in Fleet CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
- TI-2026-76130 Unbounded gzip decompression in Fleet enables denial of service CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
Sources
- CVE-2026-46370 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-46370 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-vxm7-9x8v-8gm4 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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