CVE-2026-43566
critical
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS v4 NEW
9.1
VIR risk
9.8
Description
OpenClaw: Heartbeat owner downgrade missed untrusted webhook wake events
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ if you've already worked around this in production โ publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
โ Propose a mitigation on Community โ Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| openclaw | openclaw | {"startIncluding":"2026.4.7","endExcluding":"2026.4.14"} | 2026.4.14 |
References
- https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/31281bc92f55796817a92bc43f722cba1e77ab42
- https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/security/advisories/GHSA-g2hm-779g-vm32
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/openclaw-privilege-escalation-via-untrusted-webhook-wake-events
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-43566
- https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/pull/66031
- https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g2hm-779g-vm32
CWEs
CWE-184
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.