OpenClaw Hook Session Key Override Enables Targeted Cross-Session Routing

Summary The issue is not deterministic session keys by itself. The exploitable path was accepting externally supplied sessionKey values on authenticated hook ingress, allowing a hook token holder to route messages into chosen sessions. Affected Behavior - POST /hooks/agent accepted payload...

GHSA-HV93-R4J3-Q65F OpenClaw Hook Session Key Override Enables Targeted Cross-Session Routing

Summary The issue is not deterministic session keys by itself. The exploitable path was accepting externally supplied sessionKey values on authenticated hook ingress, allowing a hook token holder to route messages into chosen sessions. Affected Behavior - POST /hooks/agent accepted payload...

GHSA-RV39-79C4-7459 OpenClaw's gateway connect could skip device identity checks when auth.token was present but not yet validated

Summary The gateway WebSocket connect handshake could allow skipping device identity checks when auth.token was present but not yet validated. Details In src/gateway/server/ws-connection/message-handler.ts, the device-identity requirement could be bypassed based on the presence of a non-empty...

Missing Authentication for Critical Function

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Missing Authentication for Critical Function via the connect handshake in the gateway WebSocket, when auth.token is present but not validated. An attacker can gain unauthorized access by...

OpenClaw's gateway connect could skip device identity checks when auth.token was present but not yet validated

Summary The gateway WebSocket connect handshake could allow skipping device identity checks when auth.token was present but not yet validated. Details In src/gateway/server/ws-connection/message-handler.ts, the device-identity requirement could be bypassed based on the presence of a non-empty...

PT-2026-22353

Summary The issue is not deterministic session keys by itself. The exploitable path was accepting externally supplied sessionKey values on authenticated hook ingress, allowing a hook token holder to route messages into chosen sessions. Affected Behavior - POST /hooks/agent accepted payload...

PT-2026-23526

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenClaw versions 2026.1.20 through 2026.2.1 Description The software’s plugin installation process does not properly validate plugin package names, allowing attackers to write files outside the intended installation directory. Specifically,...

PT-2026-20324

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions openclaw versions prior to 2026.2.1 Description In Telegram webhook mode, if channels.telegram.webhookSecret is not set, the software may accept webhook HTTP requests without verifying Telegram’s secret token header. This can allow forged...

PT-2026-22436

Summary Google Chat allowlisting supports matching by sender email in addition to immutable sender resource name users/. This weakens identity binding if a deployment assumes allowlists are strictly keyed by immutable principals. Affected Packages / Versions As of 2026-02-14; based on latest...

PT-2026-22438

Summary In openclaw versions prior to 2026.2.13, OpenClaw logged certain WebSocket request headers including Origin and User-Agent without neutralization or length limits on the "closed before connect" path. If an unauthenticated client can reach the gateway and send crafted header values, those...

PT-2026-20959

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.14 Description The SSRF protection in OpenClaw could be bypassed using full-form IPv4-mapped IPv6 literals, such as 0:0:0:0:0:ffff:7f00:1 which is 127.0.0.1. This bypass allows requests that should be blocked,...

PT-2026-22354

Summary In affected versions, the Browser Relay /cdp WebSocket endpoint did not require an authentication token. As a result, a website running in the browser could potentially connect to the local relay via loopback WebSocket and use CDP to access cookies from other open tabs and run JavaScript ...

PT-2026-23546

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenClaw versions 2026.1.14-1 through 2026.2.1 Description The software contains a flaw where direct message DM allowlist matching can be circumvented by precisely matching sender display names and localparts without homeserver verification...

PT-2026-20318

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.3 Description OpenClaw is a personal AI assistant. When the Slack integration is enabled, Slack channel metadata topic/description can be incorporated into the model's system prompt. This increases the injecti...

PT-2026-22432

Summary A server-side request forgery SSRF vulnerability in the Image tool allowed attackers to force OpenClaw to make HTTP requests to arbitrary internal or restricted network targets. Affected Versions - npm: openclaw = 2026.2.1 Patched Versions - npm: openclaw 2026.2.2 and later Fix Commits -...

PT-2026-22429

Summary In the optional Twitch channel plugin extensions/twitch, allowFrom is documented as a hard allowlist of Twitch user IDs, but it was not enforced as a hard gate. If allowedRoles is unset or empty, the access control path defaulted to allow, so any Twitch user who could mention the bot coul...

PT-2026-22450

Summary OpenClaw Matrix DM allowlist matching could be bypassed in certain configurations. Matrix support ships as an optional plugin not bundled with the core install, so this only affects deployments that have installed and enabled the Matrix plugin. Affected Packages / Versions - Package:...

PT-2026-22352

Summary In OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.12, the gateway accepted an untrusted sessionFile path when resolving the session transcript file. This could allow an authenticated gateway client to create and append OpenClaw session transcript records at an arbitrary path on the gateway host...

PT-2026-22444

Summary The OpenClaw Nostr channel plugin optional, disabled by default, installed separately exposes profile management HTTP endpoints under /api/channels/nostr/:accountId/profile GET/PUT and /api/channels/nostr/:accountId/profile/import POST. In affected versions, these routes were dispatched v...

PT-2026-23520

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.2 Description The software does not properly validate Windows cmd.exe metacharacters in allowlist-gated exec requests, potentially allowing attackers to bypass command approval restrictions. Attackers can craf...