Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-100579 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-100579 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-100579?
- High severity, with a CVSS score of 7.6, published 26 September 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Openclaw before 2026.7.1.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-100579?
- A patch was published on 2026-09-26: version 2026.7.1 Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.
- How is CVE-2026-100579 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in a software library.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-100579?
- Check whether you run Openclaw at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
The vulnerability is an authorization bypass (CWE-639, CWE-863) in the message.action handler where requester provenance is not properly validated. A write-scoped caller in an identity-bearing Gateway deployment can supply a spoofed sender identifier to bypass channel authorization checks. The attack requires network access and low privileges (write scope); no user interaction is needed. An attacker gains the ability to invoke channel actions under a different user's identity, reaching operations normally denied to their actual privileges.
Affected products
- OpenClaw openclaw before 2026.7.1
Timeline
- 2026-09-26: disclosed
- 2026-09-26: patched: version 2026.7.1