PT-2026-26414

A workspace-only file-system guard mismatch allowed @-prefixed absolute paths to bypass boundary validation in some tool path checks. Impact When tools.fs.workspaceOnly=true, certain @-prefixed absolute paths for example @/etc/passwd could be validated before canonicalization while runtime path...

PT-2026-26389

Summary In some opt-in sandbox configurations, the experimental apply patch tool did not consistently apply workspace-only checks to mounted paths for example /agent/.... Impact This does not affect default installs. Default posture: - agents.defaults.sandbox.mode=off sandbox disabled by default ...

PT-2026-26406

This issue is a browser-origin WebSocket auth chain on local loopback deployments using password auth. It is serious, but conditional: an attacker must get the user to open a malicious page and then successfully guess the gateway password. Context and Preconditions OpenClaw’s web/gateway surface ...

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-2026-24673

Summary A command injection vulnerability exists in OpenClaw’s Linux systemd unit generation path. When rendering Environment= entries, attacker-controlled values are not rejected for CR/LF, and systemdEscapeArg uses an incorrect whitespace-matching regex. This allows newline injection to break o...

PT-2026-26008

Summary OpenClaw allowed dangerous process-control environment variables from env.vars for example NODE OPTIONS, LD , DYLD to flow into gateway service runtime environments, enabling startup-time code execution in the OpenClaw process context. Details collectConfigEnvVars accepted unfiltered keys...

PT-2026-26225

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.22 Description The software contains an allowlist bypass issue in the system.run function. This allows attackers to execute commands not included in the allowlist by utilizing shell line-continuation character...

PT-2026-26235

Summary On Windows, the Lobster extension previously retried certain spawn failures ENOENT/EINVAL with shell: true for wrapper compatibility. In that fallback path, tool-provided arguments could be interpreted by cmd.exe if fallback was triggered. Affected Packages / Versions - Package: openclaw...

PT-2026-26405

Summary OpenClaw avatar handling allowed a symlink traversal path that could expose local files outside an agent workspace through gateway avatar surfaces. Affected Packages / Versions - Package: openclaw npm - Affected versions: = 2026.2.22 so after npm release, the remaining action is to publis...

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...

PT-2026-26416

Summary In [email protected], the Discord voice transcript path called agentCommand... without senderIsOwner, and agentCommand defaults missing senderIsOwner to true. This could allow a non-owner voice participant in the same channel to reach owner-only tool surfaces gateway, cron during voice...

PT-2026-26417

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.26 Description The OpenClaw gateway plugin contains a path traversal issue that allows remote attackers to bypass route authentication checks. This is achieved by manipulating the /api/channels paths with...

PT-2026-26240

Summary The Lobster extension tool execution path used a Windows shell fallback shell: true after spawn failures EINVAL/ENOENT. In that fallback path, shell metacharacters in command arguments can be interpreted by the shell, enabling command injection. Affected Packages / Versions - Package:...

PT-2026-26222

Summary system.run exec allowlist analysis treated wrapper binaries as the effective executable and did not fully unwrap env/shell-dispatch wrappers. This allowed wrapper-smuggled payloads for example env bash -lc ... to satisfy an allowlist entry for the wrapper while executing non-allowlisted...

PT-2026-26398

Summary OpenClaw exec allowlist/safeBins policy could be bypassed with attached short-option payloads for example sort -o/tmp/poc, enabling file-write operations while still satisfying safeBins checks. Affected Packages / Versions - Package: openclaw npm - Affected versions: = 2026.2.17 - Latest...

PT-2026-26409

Summary In OpenClaw = 2026.2.25 Fix Commits - aedf62ac7e669a89c7b299201bf6537dc6b12e0e Release Process Note patched versions is pre-set to the release 2026.2.25 so after npm release the advisory is published. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting...

PT-2026-26238

Summary In openclaw versions 2026.2.22 and 2026.2.23, the optional synology-chat channel plugin had an authorization fail-open condition: when dmPolicy was allowlist and allowedUserIds was empty/unset, unauthorized senders were still allowed through to agent dispatch. This is assessed as medium...

PT-2026-26234

Summary OpenClaw Windows Scheduled Task script generation allowed unsafe argument handling in generated gateway.cmd files. In vulnerable versions, cmd metacharacter-only values could be emitted without safe quoting/escaping, which could lead to unintended command execution when the scheduled task...

PT-2026-26390

Impact assertBrowserNavigationAllowed validated only http:/https: network targets but implicitly allowed other schemes. An authenticated gateway user could navigate browser sessions to file:// URLs and read local files via browser snapshot/extraction flows. Affected Component -...

PT-2026-26012

Summary openclaw web tools strict URL fetch paths could lose DNS pinning when environment proxy variables are configured HTTP PROXY/HTTPS PROXY/ALL PROXY, including lowercase variants. In affected builds, strict URL checks for example web fetch and citation redirect resolution validated one...