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