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🛡️ CVE-2026-24000 — fleet

🟡 CVSS 5.3 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-290 NVD
5.3
CVSS Score
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Description

Fleet has a rate limiting bypass via untrusted client IP headers

Impact

Fleet trusted client-supplied IP address headers when determining the source IP for incoming requests. This allowed authenticated and unauthenticated clients to spoof their apparent IP address and bypass per-IP rate limiting controls.

Fleet determines a client’s public IP address using HTTP headers such as:

  • X-Forwarded-For
  • X-Real-IP
  • True-Client-IP

These headers were trusted without validation. An attacker could supply arbitrary values in these headers, causing Fleet to treat each request as originating from a different IP address.

This could allow an attacker to bypass per-IP rate limits and increase the effectiveness of brute-force or password-spraying attempts against authentication endpoints.

This issue does not allow authentication bypass, privilege escalation, data exposure, or remote code execution on its own.

Workarounds

Run Fleet behind a trusted reverse proxy or load balancer that overwrites client IP headers.

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

Email us at [security@fleetdm.com](mailto:[email protected])

Join #fleet in [osquery Slack](https://join.slack.com/t/osquery/shared_invite/zt-h29zm0gk-s2DBtGUTW4CFel0f0IjTEw)

Credits

We thank @fuzzztf for responsibly reporting this issue.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity low, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: None.
  • Integrity impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-24000 is classified as CWE-290: Authentication Bypass by Spoofing. Identity is inferred from something an attacker can forge, such as a header or address.

Affected software

CVE-2026-24000 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • fleet (fixed in 4.80.1)
  • github.com/fleetdm/fleet/v4

Timeline and source

Published on 14 May 2026 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com
github.com

Other advisories for this package

fleet has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-290: Authentication Bypass by Spoofing) in other software:

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.3
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-290
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-05-14
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
fleet — 4.80.1
github.com/fleetdm/fleet/v4 — —

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