CVE-2025-27509: fleetdm fleet Improper Authorization
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2025-27509 is a critical (CVSS 9.3) Improper Authorization vulnerability in fleetdm fleet. EPSS estimates a 0.67% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 51% of scored vulnerabilities.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 1 · Related 1Timeline
- 06-03-2025PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 06-03-2025Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
fleetdm/fleet is an open source device management, built on osquery. In vulnerable versions of Fleet, an attacker could craft a specially-formed SAML response to forge authentication assertions, provision a new administrative user account if Just-In-Time (JIT) provisioning is enabled, or create new accounts tied to forged assertions if f MDM enrollment is enabled. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.64.2, 4.63.2, 4.62.4, and 4.58.1.
CVSS metrics
3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version- OSV · GoEcosystem advisory · calculated9.3CriticalCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- NVDNIST9.3CriticalCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
EPSS trend
Probability
0.67%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
51%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
+0.01 pp
From 0.66% on 19-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Fleetdm1 product
- fleet≥ 4.64.0, < 4.64.2 | ≥ 4.63.0, < 4.63.2 | ≥ 4.62.0, < 4.62.4 | < 4.58.1
Github.com/fleetdm/fleet1 product
- v4≥ 4.64.0, < 4.64.2 | ≥ 4.63.0, < 4.63.2 | ≥ 4.62.0, < 4.62.4 | ≥ 4.54.0, < 4.58.1 | < 4.53.2 | All versions (No fix recorded)
2 vendors · 2 products
References
6 links- github.com/fleetdm/fleetPACKAGE