CVE-2026-23517: Fleet has an Access Control vulnerability in debug/pprof endpoints

January 20, 2026 (updated January 22, 2026)

A broken access control issue in Fleet allowed authenticated users to access debug and profiling endpoints regardless of role. As a result, low-privilege users could view internal server diagnostics and trigger resource-intensive profiling operations.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-4r5r-ccr6-q6f6
github.com/fleetdm/fleet
github.com/fleetdm/fleet/commit/5c030e32a3a9bc512355b5e1bf19636e4e6d0317
github.com/fleetdm/fleet/security/advisories/GHSA-4r5r-ccr6-q6f6
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-23517

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