Post #932120
2026-04-03 18:27 UTC
I'm trying to understand a bit more about CVE-2026-33579, the critical vulnerability in OpenClaw. To exploit, an attacker needs low-level paring privilege permissions. How does one acquire such privileges? Can anyone do it? I'm asking because I want to understand what's required for an attacker to exploit.
Feel free to ping me at DanArs.82, or drop an answer here.
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@Viss@mastodon.social 2026-04-03 18:35
@dangoodin so this is a privesc bug. it suggests that a lower privileged user has the ability to pair new stuff to the bot. but most people dont appear to really be using that functionality? most bots are 1:1 in terms of ownership - one bot to one person. but this bug can be used by one existing paired channel (email, telgram, discord, twitter, whatever) to create a new one. so its plausible that an attacker could just dm the owner the right way to pair something THEY control
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@iznogoud@mastodon.social 2026-04-03 21:04
@dangoodin thanks for the Ars article describing some of the community approaches toward the tool, I found it interesting. And there was this comment