OpenClaw: system.run wrapper-depth boundary could skip shell approval gating

OpenClaw's system.run dispatch-wrapper handling applied different depth-boundary rules to shell-wrapper approval detection and execution planning. With exactly four transparent dispatch wrappers such as repeated env invocations before /bin/sh -c, the approval classifier could stop treating the...

GHSA-R6QF-8968-WJ9Q OpenClaw: system.run wrapper-depth boundary could skip shell approval gating

OpenClaw's system.run dispatch-wrapper handling applied different depth-boundary rules to shell-wrapper approval detection and execution planning. With exactly four transparent dispatch wrappers such as repeated env invocations before /bin/sh -c, the approval classifier could stop treating the...

Incorrect Authorization

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incorrect Authorization in the system.run process when handling dispatch wrappers with exactly four transparent wrappers such as repeated env invocations before /bin/sh -c. An attacker ca...

Insufficiently Protected Credentials

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insufficiently Protected Credentials via the fetchWithSsrFGuard process. An attacker can obtain sensitive authorization credentials by triggering a cross-origin redirect that causes custo...

OpenClaw: fetch-guard forwards custom authorization headers across cross-origin redirects

OpenClaw's fetchWithSsrFGuard... followed cross-origin redirects while preserving arbitrary caller-supplied headers except for a narrow denylist Authorization, Proxy-Authorization, Cookie, Cookie2. This allowed custom authorization headers such as X-Api-Key, Private-Token, and similar sensitive...

GHSA-6MGF-V5J7-45CR OpenClaw: fetch-guard forwards custom authorization headers across cross-origin redirects

OpenClaw's fetchWithSsrFGuard... followed cross-origin redirects while preserving arbitrary caller-supplied headers except for a narrow denylist Authorization, Proxy-Authorization, Cookie, Cookie2. This allowed custom authorization headers such as X-Api-Key, Private-Token, and similar sensitive...

Incorrect Authorization

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incorrect Authorization in the /allowlist ... --store process. An attacker can gain unintended authorization to the default account by editing allowlist entries as an already-authorized...

OpenClaw's system.run allowlist approval parsing missed PowerShell encoded-command wrappers

OpenClaw's system.run shell-wrapper detection did not recognize PowerShell -EncodedCommand forms as inline-command wrappers. In allowlist mode, a caller with access to system.run could invoke pwsh or powershell using -EncodedCommand, -enc, or -e, and the request would fall back to plain argv...

GHSA-3H2Q-J2V4-6W5R OpenClaw's system.run allowlist approval parsing missed PowerShell encoded-command wrappers

OpenClaw's system.run shell-wrapper detection did not recognize PowerShell -EncodedCommand forms as inline-command wrappers. In allowlist mode, a caller with access to system.run could invoke pwsh or powershell using -EncodedCommand, -enc, or -e, and the request would fall back to plain argv...

Incorrect Authorization

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incorrect Authorization in the system.run process when PowerShell encoded-command wrappers such as -EncodedCommand, -enc, or -e are used. An attacker can bypass approval mechanisms and...

GHSA-J425-WHC4-4JGC OpenClaw's `system.run` env override filtering allowed dangerous helper-command pivots

Summary system.run env override sanitization allowed dangerous override-only helper-command pivots to reach subprocesses. A caller who could invoke system.run with env overrides could bypass allowlist/approval intent by steering an allowlisted tool through helper-command or config-loading...

OpenClaw's `system.run` env override filtering allowed dangerous helper-command pivots

Summary system.run env override sanitization allowed dangerous override-only helper-command pivots to reach subprocesses. A caller who could invoke system.run with env overrides could bypass allowlist/approval intent by steering an allowlisted tool through helper-command or config-loading...

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key via the system.run process. An attacker can bypass intended allowlist or approval mechanisms by supplying crafted environment variable...

Improper Control of Interaction Frequency

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Control of Interaction Frequency via the hooks HTTP handler. An attacker can cause temporary lockout of legitimate webhook delivery by sending repeated non-POST requests with...

OpenClaw's hooks count non-POST requests toward auth lockout

OpenClaw's hooks HTTP handler counted hook authentication failures before rejecting unsupported HTTP methods. An unauthenticated client could send repeated non-POST requests for example GET with an invalid token to consume the hook auth failure budget and trigger the temporary lockout window for...

GHSA-6RMX-GVVG-VH6J OpenClaw's hooks count non-POST requests toward auth lockout

OpenClaw's hooks HTTP handler counted hook authentication failures before rejecting unsupported HTTP methods. An unauthenticated client could send repeated non-POST requests for example GET with an invalid token to consume the hook auth failure budget and trigger the temporary lockout window for...

Use of GET Request Method With Sensitive Query Strings

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of GET Request Method With Sensitive Query Strings via the process that appends authentication material to the browser URL query string and persists it in browser localStorage. An...

OpenClaw's dashboard leaked gateway auth material via browser URL/query and localStorage

OpenClaw's macOS Dashboard flow exposed Gateway authentication material to browser-controlled surfaces. Before the fix, the macOS app appended the shared Gateway token and password to the Dashboard URL query string when opening the Control UI in the browser. The Control UI then imported the token...

GHSA-RCHV-X836-W7XP OpenClaw's dashboard leaked gateway auth material via browser URL/query and localStorage

OpenClaw's macOS Dashboard flow exposed Gateway authentication material to browser-controlled surfaces. Before the fix, the macOS app appended the shared Gateway token and password to the Dashboard URL query string when opening the Control UI in the browser. The Control UI then imported the token...

A week in security (March 2 – March 8)

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