🛡️ CVE-2026-9089 — automate

🟠 CVSS 8.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-494 NVD
8.8
CVSS Score
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Description

The ConnectWise Automate™ Agent does not fully verify the authenticity of components obtained during plugin loading and self-update operations. This issue is addressed in Automate 2026.5.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached from an adjacent network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-9089 is classified as CWE-494: Download of Code Without Integrity Check. Code or updates are fetched and executed without verifying they are authentic and unmodified.

Affected software

CVE-2026-9089 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • automate (fixed in 2026.5)
  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 21 May 2026 and last revised on 23 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

www.connectwise.com

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-494
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-05-21
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-07-23
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
automate — 2026.5
unknown — —

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