GHSA-H3RM-6X7G-882F OpenClaw's Node system.run approval hardening wrapper semantic drift can execute unintended local scripts

Summary In [email protected], node system.run approval-path hardening rewrote wrapper command argv in a way that changed execution semantics. A command shown/approved as a shell payload for example echo SAFE could execute a different local script when wrapper argv were rewritten. Affected Package...

OpenClaw's Node system.run approval hardening wrapper semantic drift can execute unintended local scripts

Summary In [email protected], node system.run approval-path hardening rewrote wrapper command argv in a way that changed execution semantics. A command shown/approved as a shell payload for example echo SAFE could execute a different local script when wrapper argv were rewritten. Affected Package...

GHSA-6RCP-VXWF-3MFP OpenClaw's system.run shell-wrapper positional argv carriers could execute hidden commands under misleading approval text

Summary In openclaw up to and including 2026.2.23 latest npm release as of February 25, 2026, system.run shell-wrapper inputs could present misleading approval/display text while still carrying hidden positional argv payloads that execute at runtime. Affected Packages / Versions - Package: opencl...

OpenClaw's system.run shell-wrapper positional argv carriers could execute hidden commands under misleading approval text

Summary In openclaw up to and including 2026.2.23 latest npm release as of February 25, 2026, system.run shell-wrapper inputs could present misleading approval/display text while still carrying hidden positional argv payloads that execute at runtime. Affected Packages / Versions - Package: opencl...

Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Time-of-check Time-of-use TOCTOU Race Condition via system.run when a mutable symlink is used as the cwd target between approval and execution. An attacker can execute commands in an...

OpenClaw's system.run approval TOCTOU via mutable symlink cwd target on node host

Summary In [email protected], approval-bound system.run on node hosts could be influenced by mutable symlink cwd targets between approval and execution. Details Approval matching on the gateway validated command/argv and binding fields, including cwd, as provided text. Node execution later used...

OpenClaw's dispatch-wrapper depth-cap mismatch can bypass shell-wrapper approval gating in system.run allowlist mode

Summary A wrapper-depth parsing mismatch in system.run allowed nested transparent dispatch wrappers for example repeated /usr/bin/env to suppress shell-wrapper detection while still matching allowlist resolution. In security=allowlist + ask=on-miss, this could bypass the expected approval prompt...

GHSA-CCG8-46R6-9QGJ OpenClaw's dispatch-wrapper depth-cap mismatch can bypass shell-wrapper approval gating in system.run allowlist mode

Summary A wrapper-depth parsing mismatch in system.run allowed nested transparent dispatch wrappers for example repeated /usr/bin/env to suppress shell-wrapper detection while still matching allowlist resolution. In security=allowlist + ask=on-miss, this could bypass the expected approval prompt...

Incorrect Authorization

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incorrect Authorization through a mismatch in wrapper-depth parsing in system.run. An attacker can bypass approval gating by crafting nested transparent dispatch wrappers, allowing...

Exploit for OS Command Injection in Anysphere Cursor

CVE PoC: MCP Server Config Swap in Claude Code Vulnerabilit...

Incorrect Authorization

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incorrect Authorization in the exec approval mode on macOS node-hosts when basename-only allowlist entries are configured. An attacker can execute unauthorized local binaries by creating ...

PT-2026-26228

Summary In [email protected], node system.run approval-path hardening rewrote wrapper command argv in a way that changed execution semantics. A command shown/approved as a shell payload for example echo SAFE could execute a different local script when wrapper argv were rewritten. Affected Package...

PT-2026-26404

Summary A wrapper-depth parsing mismatch in system.run allowed nested transparent dispatch wrappers for example repeated /usr/bin/env to suppress shell-wrapper detection while still matching allowlist resolution. In security=allowlist + ask=on-miss, this could bypass the expected approval prompt...

PT-2026-26397

Summary On macOS node-host, optional exec-approval allowlist mode previously treated basename-only entries for example echo as trusted command matches. This could allow a same-name local binary for example ./echo to run without approval under security=allowlist + ask=on-miss. Scope / Precondition...

OpenClaw: Node system.run approval bypass via parent-symlink cwd rebind

Summary For host=node executions, approval context could be bypassed after approval-time by rebinding a writable parent symlink in cwd while preserving the visible cwd string. Affected Packages / Versions - Package: openclaw npm - Affected: = 2026.2.26 planned next npm release Impact A command...

GHSA-F7WW-2725-QVW2 OpenClaw: Node system.run approval bypass via parent-symlink cwd rebind

Summary For host=node executions, approval context could be bypassed after approval-time by rebinding a writable parent symlink in cwd while preserving the visible cwd string. Affected Packages / Versions - Package: openclaw npm - Affected: = 2026.2.26 planned next npm release Impact A command...

Incorrect Authorization

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incorrect Authorization via the system.run approvals. An attacker can cause execution of an unintended binary by crafting a command with a trailing-space in the executable token and...

GHSA-HWPQ-RRPF-PGCQ OpenClaw: system.run approval identity mismatch could execute a different binary than displayed

Summary system.run approvals in OpenClaw used rendered command text as the approval identity while trimming argv token whitespace. Runtime execution still used raw argv. A crafted trailing-space executable token could therefore execute a different binary than what the approver saw. Affected...

GHSA-943Q-MWMV-HHVH OpenClaw: Gateway /tools/invoke tool escalation + ACP permission auto-approval

Summary OpenClaw Gateway exposes an authenticated HTTP endpoint POST /tools/invoke intended for invoking a constrained set of tools. Two issues could combine to significantly increase blast radius in misconfigured or exposed deployments: - The HTTP gateway layer did not deny high-risk session...

OpenClaw Vulnerable to Remote Code Execution via Node Invoke Approval Bypass in Gateway

Summary A remote code execution RCE vulnerability in the gateway-to-node invocation path allowed an authenticated gateway client to bypass node-host exec approvals by injecting internal control fields into node.invoke parameters. Affected Component - Gateway method: node.invoke for node command...