GHSA-Q3JJ-46PQ-826R OpenClaw's ACP child sessions inherit subagent security envelope constraints

Summary ACP child sessions inherit subagent security envelope constraints. Affected Packages / Versions - Package: openclaw npm - Affected versions: = 2026.4.21 - Fixed version: 2026.4.22 Impact A restricted subagent spawning an ACP child session could fail to carry forward subagent-only...

GHSA-F3H5-H452-VP3J OpenClaw: Nostr profile mutation routes allowed operator.write config persistence

Summary Nostr profile mutation routes allowed operator.write config persistence. Affected Packages / Versions - Package: openclaw - Ecosystem: npm - Affected versions: = 2026.4.10 Impact Nostr plugin HTTP profile routes could persist profile config through a path that did not require admin...

OpenClaw: Collect-mode queue batches could reuse the last sender authorization context

Summary Collect-mode queue batches could reuse the last sender authorization context. Affected Packages / Versions - Package: openclaw - Ecosystem: npm - Affected versions: = 2026.4.14 Impact Collect-mode queued messages from different senders could be drained as one batch using the final sender'...

OpenClaw: Sandbox noVNC helper route exposed interactive browser session credentials

Summary Sandbox noVNC helper route exposed interactive browser session credentials. Affected Packages / Versions - Package: openclaw - Ecosystem: npm - Affected versions: = 2026.2.21 = 2026.4.10 Impact The sandbox noVNC helper route could be reached without the intended bridge authentication,...

GHSA-CM8V-2VH9-CXF3 OpenClaw: GIT_DIR and related git plumbing env vars missing from exec env denylist (GHSA-m866-6qv5-p2fg variant)

Impact GITDIR and related git plumbing env vars missing from exec env denylist GHSA-m866-6qv5-p2fg variant. Git plumbing environment variables were not removed before host exec and could redirect Git operations. OpenClaw is a user-controlled local assistant. This advisory is scoped to the OpenCla...

GHSA-5H3F-885M-V22W OpenClaw: Existing WS sessions survive shared gateway token rotation

Impact Existing WS sessions survive shared gateway token rotation. Rotating the shared gateway token did not disconnect existing shared-token WebSocket sessions. OpenClaw is a user-controlled local assistant. This advisory is scoped to the OpenClaw trust model and does not assume a multi-tenant...

Insufficient Session Expiration

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insufficient Session Expiration due to the resolvedAuth process becoming outdated after a configuration reload. An attacker can maintain unauthorized access by leveraging stale...

OpenClaw: HGRCPATH, CARGO_BUILD_RUSTC_WRAPPER, RUSTC_WRAPPER, and MAKEFLAGS missing from exec env denylist — RCE via build tool env injection (GHSA-cm8v-2vh9-cxf3 class)

Impact HGRCPATH, CARGOBUILDRUSTCWRAPPER, RUSTCWRAPPER, and MAKEFLAGS missing from exec env denylist — RCE via build tool env injection GHSA-cm8v-2vh9-cxf3 class. Missing denylist entries allowed hostile build-tool environment variables to influence host exec commands. OpenClaw is a user-controlle...

GHSA-846P-HGPV-VPHC OpenClaw: QQ Bot structured payloads could read arbitrary local files

Summary Before OpenClaw 2026.4.2, QQ Bot structured media payloads could read local files from attacker-chosen paths. A crafted structured payload could escape QQ Bot-owned media roots and cause arbitrary file reads on the host. Impact Prompt-influenced structured payload output could exfiltrate...

OpenClaw: Voice-call still parses large WebSocket frames before start validation (Incomplete fix for CVE-2026-32062)

Summary Incomplete fix for CVE-2026-32062: voice-call still parses large WebSocket frames before start validation Current Maintainer Triage - Normalized severity: medium - Assessment: v2026.3.28 still parses oversized pre-start voice-call WebSocket frames before start validation, and the unreleas...

GHSA-57GH-M6RQ-54CF OpenClaw: Self-Whitelisting in appendLocalMediaParentRoots Allows Arbitrary File Read & Credential Exfiltration

Summary Media Local Roots Self-Whitelisting in appendLocalMediaParentRoots Allows Model-Initiated Arbitrary Host File Read and Credential Exfiltration Current Maintainer Triage - Status: narrow - Normalized severity: medium - Assessment: v2026.3.28 still self-whitelists media parent dirs in...

OpenClaw may have stale policy enforcement for queued node actions

Summary Queued node actions were not revalidated against current command policy when later delivered, so stale allowlists or declarations could survive policy tightening. Affected Packages / Versions - Package: openclaw npm - Affected: = 2026.3.22 - Latest released tag checked: v2026.3.23-2...

vantuz (>=3.3.2 <=3.3.7) potentially affected by CVE-2026-35626 via openclaw (=0.0.1)

openclaw NPM version =0.0.1 is affected by a known vulnerability. The following packages have a transitive dependency on openclaw and may be impacted: - vantuz =3.3.2, =3.3.7 Source cves: CVE-2026-35626 Source advisory: OSV:GHSA-RM59-992W-X2MV...

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling through the Telegram webhook request handling process. An attacker can cause excessive resource consumption by sending unauthenticated...

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 through the skills download installer. An attacker can cause files to be written outside the intended directory by rebinding the validated...

OpenClaw: Sandboxed /acp spawn requests could initialize host ACP sessions

Summary Sandboxed requester sessions could reach host-side ACP session initialization through /acp spawn. OpenClaw already blocked sessionsspawn runtime: "acp" from sandboxed sessions, but the slash-command path initialized ACP directly without applying the same host-runtime guard first. Affected...

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...

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-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...

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...