Fleet: Observer-class users can view team enroll secrets and credential-bearing configuration via target search endpoint
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Information disclosure
- 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.
Summary
Fleet is an open-source device management platform built on osquery. In versions prior to 4.87.0, the target search endpoint (POST /api/latest/fleet/targets) returned unmasked team enroll secrets and full team configuration, including credential-bearing agent options, to low-privilege observer-class users. Other team-facing endpoints mask these fields for observers, but the target search endpoint did not apply the same sanitization, so an authenticated user with the Observer, Observer+, or Technician role, whether global or team-scoped, could retrieve the secrets and agent options by performing a target search against an observer-runnable query. With a leaked team enroll secret an attacker could enroll unauthorized hosts into the affected team, and if the team's agent options contained credentials such as AWS secret access keys or proxy passwords, those values were disclosed as well. This issue is fixed in version 4.87.0.
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 4.87.0 | 4.87.0 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | github.com/fleetdm/fleet/v4 (Go) | before 4.87.0 | 4.87.0 | Patch available | GHSA-88p2-jj8w-j8qg |
- fleet Vendorfleetdm Affected before 4.87.0 Fixed in 4.87.0 Patch available CNA
- github.com/fleetdm/fleet/v4 (Go) Vendor— Affected before 4.87.0 Fixed in 4.87.0 Patch available GHSA-88p2-jj8w-j8qg
Remediation
- Fix · CNA fleet (fleetdm) Fixed in 4.87.0
- Fix · GHSA-88p2-jj8w-j8qg github.com/fleetdm/fleet/v4 (Go) Fixed in 4.87.0 Advisory →
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-48786
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-88p2-jj8w-j8qg
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-2026-48786 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-48786 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-88p2-jj8w-j8qg · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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