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GHSA-w254-4hp5-7cvv
No affected components available
Summary
A Denial of Service vulnerability in Fleet's gRPC Launcher endpoint allows an authenticated host to crash the entire Fleet server process by sending an unexpected log type value. The server terminates immediately, disrupting all connected hosts, MDM enrollments, and API consumers.
Impact
An attacker with access to a valid Launcher node key can send a specially crafted gRPC request to the Fleet server that triggers an unrecoverable server crash. The gRPC server lacks appropriate error recovery handling, meaning the entire Fleet process terminates rather than gracefully rejecting the malformed input.
Because the crash is instant and repeatable, an attacker could script repeated requests to prevent the server from recovering, resulting in a persistent denial of service until a patched version is deployed.
Workarounds
There is no workaround for this issue other than upgrading to a patched version.
For more information
If there are any questions or comments about this advisory:
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Credits
Fleet thanks @fuzzztf for responsibly reporting this issue.
The vulnerability can be exploited over the network without needing physical access. It is easy for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker does not need any special privileges or access rights. No user interaction is needed for the attacker to exploit this vulnerability.
Exploitation attempts have been detected. Elevated vigilance and prompt remediation are advised.
The exploit probability is very low. The vulnerability is unlikely to be exploited in the next 30 days.
We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.
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