Symlink Attack

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Symlink Attack in the tools.fs.workspaceOnly process when hardlink aliases inside the workspace reference files outside the workspace boundary. An attacker can access or modify files...

GHSA-3JX4-Q2M7-R496 OpenClaw: Hardlink alias checks could bypass workspace-only file boundaries in specific configurations

Summary In certain workspace-restricted configurations, OpenClaw could follow hardlink aliases inside the workspace that reference files outside the workspace boundary. By default, tools.fs.workspaceOnly is off. This primarily affects deployments that intentionally enable workspace-only filesyste...

Reliance on IP Address for Authentication

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Reliance on IP Address for Authentication in the authorizeCanvasRequest process. An attacker can gain unauthorized access to canvas endpoints and sensitive interface content by sending HT...

GHSA-VVJH-F6P9-5VCF OpenClaw Canvas Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

ZDI-CAN-29311: OpenClaw Canvas Authentication Bypass Vulnerability -- ABSTRACT ------------------------------------- Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative has identified a vulnerability affecting the following products: OpenClaw - OpenClaw -- VULNERABILITY DETAILS ------------------------ Version...

OpenClaw Canvas Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

ZDI-CAN-29311: OpenClaw Canvas Authentication Bypass Vulnerability -- ABSTRACT ------------------------------------- Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative has identified a vulnerability affecting the following products: OpenClaw - OpenClaw -- VULNERABILITY DETAILS ------------------------ Version...

Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties via the image tool when tools.fs.workspaceOnly is set to true but not enforced for mounted paths resolved by the sandbox file system...

OpenClaw's image tool bypasses tools.fs.workspaceOnly on sandbox mount paths and exfiltrates out-of-workspace images

Summary In OpenClaw, the sandboxed image tool did not honor tools.fs.workspaceOnly=true for mounted paths resolved by the sandbox FS bridge. This allowed reading out-of-workspace mounted images for example /agent/ and forwarding those bytes to vision model providers. Impact Sandbox boundary bypas...

GHSA-Q6QF-4P5J-R25G OpenClaw's image tool bypasses tools.fs.workspaceOnly on sandbox mount paths and exfiltrates out-of-workspace images

Summary In OpenClaw, the sandboxed image tool did not honor tools.fs.workspaceOnly=true for mounted paths resolved by the sandbox FS bridge. This allowed reading out-of-workspace mounted images for example /agent/ and forwarding those bytes to vision model providers. Impact Sandbox boundary bypas...

GHSA-4RQQ-W8V4-7P47 OpenClaw has incomplete IPv4 special-use SSRF blocking in web fetch guard

Summary isPrivateIpv4 in bundled SSRF guard code missed several IPv4 special-use/non-global ranges, so webfetch could allow targets that should be blocked by SSRF policy. Affected Packages / Versions - Package: openclaw npm - Latest published affected version: 2026.2.21-2 published 2026-02-21 -...

OpenClaw has incomplete IPv4 special-use SSRF blocking in web fetch guard

Summary isPrivateIpv4 in bundled SSRF guard code missed several IPv4 special-use/non-global ranges, so webfetch could allow targets that should be blocked by SSRF policy. Affected Packages / Versions - Package: openclaw npm - Latest published affected version: 2026.2.21-2 published 2026-02-21 -...

Server-side Request Forgery (SSRF)

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Server-side Request Forgery SSRF incomplete validation of IPv4 special-use address ranges in the webfetch process. An attacker can access internal or non-global network resources by...

GHSA-9MPH-4F7V-FMVH OpenClaw has agent avatar symlink traversal in gateway session metadata

Summary A crafted local avatar path could follow a symlink outside the agent workspace and return arbitrary file contents as a base64 data: URL in gateway responses. Impact - Confidentiality impact: local file read in the gateway process context. - Exfiltration path: agents.list can return the...

Symlink Attack

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Symlink Attack via the resolveIdentityAvatarUrl function. An attacker can access arbitrary files outside the intended workspace by supplying a crafted local avatar path that follows a...

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 in the tools.elevated.allowFrom process. An attacker can gain unauthorized elevated access by providing broader identity signals than...

GHSA-F6H3-846H-2R8W OpenClaw's elevated allowFrom accepted broader identity signals than specified within sender-scoped authorization

Summary In certain elevated-mode configurations, tools.elevated.allowFrom accepted broader identity signals than intended. The fix tightens matching to sender-scoped identity by default and makes mutable metadata matching explicit. Context OpenClaw is commonly used in 1:1 chats or trusted group...

Incorrect Authorization

Overview @openclaw/matrix is an OpenClaw Matrix channel plugin Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incorrect Authorization through improper access control in the pairing store process. An attacker can gain unauthorized access to another account's direct message pairing by leveragi...

Incorrect Authorization

Overview @openclaw/mattermost is an OpenClaw Mattermost channel plugin Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incorrect Authorization through improper access control in the pairing store process. An attacker can gain unauthorized access to another account's direct message pairing by...

OpenClaw has cross-account DM pairing authorization bypass via unscoped pairing store access

Summary OpenClaw had account-scope gaps in pairing-store access for DM pairing policy, which could let a pairing approval from one account authorize the same sender on another account in multi-account setups. Impact This is an authorization-boundary weakness in multi-account channel deployments. ...

Incorrect Authorization

Overview @openclaw/zalo is an OpenClaw Zalo channel plugin Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incorrect Authorization through improper access control in the pairing store process. An attacker can gain unauthorized access to another account's direct message pairing by leveraging...

GHSA-VJP8-WPRM-2JW9 OpenClaw has cross-account DM pairing authorization bypass via unscoped pairing store access

Summary OpenClaw had account-scope gaps in pairing-store access for DM pairing policy, which could let a pairing approval from one account authorize the same sender on another account in multi-account setups. Impact This is an authorization-boundary weakness in multi-account channel deployments. ...