Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-100597 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-100597 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-100597?
- High severity, with a CVSS score of 7.8, published 26 September 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Openclaw before 2026.7.1.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-100597?
- A patch was published on 2026-09-26: Fixed in version 2026.7.1 Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.
- How is CVE-2026-100597 attacked?
- It is attacked with local access, in a software library.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-100597?
- 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
A time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition exists in OpenShell's local mirror filesystem mutation operations. The vulnerability occurs when path validation is completed but the actual filesystem operation acts on a different target if the path is concurrently modified. An attacker with local access and low privileges can exploit this race condition to mutate host paths outside the sandbox root, bypassing the path-safety check without requiring explicit host filesystem access grants.
Affected products
- OpenClaw openclaw before 2026.7.1
Timeline
- 2026-09-26: disclosed
- 2026-09-26: patched: Fixed in version 2026.7.1