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.
Fleet’s debug/pprof endpoints are accessible to any authenticated user regardless of role, including the lowest-privilege “Observer” role. This allows low-privilege users to access sensitive server internals, including runtime profiling data and in-memory application state, and to trigger CPU-intensive profiling operations that could lead to denial of service.
If an immediate upgrade is not possible, users should put the debug/pprof endpoints behind an IP allowlist.
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We thank @secfox-ai for responsibly reporting this issue.
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"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-862",
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"github_reviewed": true,
"github_reviewed_at": "2026-01-20T20:55:14Z",
"nvd_published_at": "2026-01-21T22:15:49Z",
"severity": "HIGH"
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