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-2026-26383

Summary A client authenticated with a shared gateway token could connect as role=node without device identity/pairing, then call node.event to trigger agent.request and voice.transcript flows. Affected Packages / Versions - Package: npm openclaw - Affected versions: = 2026.2.21-2 - Patched versio...

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-2026-26386

Summary Updated March 2, 2026 Encoded alternate-path requests could bypass plugin route auth checks for /api/channels/ due to canonicalization depth mismatch in vulnerable builds. Affected Packages / Versions - Package: openclaw npm - Latest published vulnerable version: 2026.3.1 - Affected range...

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-2026-26018

Summary OpenClaw accepted prototype-reserved keys in runtime /debug set override object values proto , constructor, prototype. Impact /debug is disabled by default, and exploitation requires an already authorized /debug set caller. No unauthenticated vector was identified. This issue affects...

Protection Mechanism Failure

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Protection Mechanism Failure through improper validation of the docker.network configuration parameter. An attacker can gain unauthorized access to internal network resources by specifyin...

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 in the host=node executions. An attacker can execute commands from an unintended filesystem location by rebinding a writable parent symlink...

GHSA-F7WW-2725-QVW2 OpenClaw: Node system.run approval bypass via parent-symlink cwd rebind

Summary For host=node executions, approval context could be bypassed after approval-time by rebinding a writable parent symlink in cwd while preserving the visible cwd string. Affected Packages / Versions - Package: openclaw npm - Affected: = 2026.2.26 planned next npm release Impact A command...

Directory Traversal

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal via the sendAttachment and setGroupIcon message actions when sandboxRoot is unset. An attacker can read arbitrary files accessible to the runtime user by triggering...

GHSA-FQCM-97M6-W7RM OpenClaw: Message action attachment hydration bypasses local media root checks when sandboxRoot is unset

Impact sendAttachment and setGroupIcon message actions could hydrate media from local absolute paths when sandboxRoot was unset, bypassing intended local media root checks. This could allow reads of arbitrary host files reachable by the runtime user when an authorized message-action path was...

OpenClaw: Message action attachment hydration bypasses local media root checks when sandboxRoot is unset

Impact sendAttachment and setGroupIcon message actions could hydrate media from local absolute paths when sandboxRoot was unset, bypassing intended local media root checks. This could allow reads of arbitrary host files reachable by the runtime user when an authorized message-action path was...

Incorrect Authorization

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incorrect Authorization via the system.run approvals. An attacker can cause execution of an unintended binary by crafting a command with a trailing-space in the executable token and...

GHSA-HWPQ-RRPF-PGCQ OpenClaw: system.run approval identity mismatch could execute a different binary than displayed

Summary system.run approvals in OpenClaw used rendered command text as the approval identity while trimming argv token whitespace. Runtime execution still used raw argv. A crafted trailing-space executable token could therefore execute a different binary than what the approver saw. Affected...

OpenClaw: system.run approval identity mismatch could execute a different binary than displayed

Summary system.run approvals in OpenClaw used rendered command text as the approval identity while trimming argv token whitespace. Runtime execution still used raw argv. A crafted trailing-space executable token could therefore execute a different binary than what the approver saw. Affected...

Command Injection

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Command Injection via the POST /tools/invoke endpoint. An attacker can gain unauthorized command execution and escalate privileges by invoking high-risk session orchestration tools and...

GHSA-943Q-MWMV-HHVH OpenClaw: Gateway /tools/invoke tool escalation + ACP permission auto-approval

Summary OpenClaw Gateway exposes an authenticated HTTP endpoint POST /tools/invoke intended for invoking a constrained set of tools. Two issues could combine to significantly increase blast radius in misconfigured or exposed deployments: - The HTTP gateway layer did not deny high-risk session...

GHSA-GV46-4XFQ-JV58 OpenClaw Vulnerable to Remote Code Execution via Node Invoke Approval Bypass in Gateway

Summary A remote code execution RCE vulnerability in the gateway-to-node invocation path allowed an authenticated gateway client to bypass node-host exec approvals by injecting internal control fields into node.invoke parameters. Affected Component - Gateway method: node.invoke for node command...

OpenClaw Vulnerable to Remote Code Execution via Node Invoke Approval Bypass in Gateway

Summary A remote code execution RCE vulnerability in the gateway-to-node invocation path allowed an authenticated gateway client to bypass node-host exec approvals by injecting internal control fields into node.invoke parameters. Affected Component - Gateway method: node.invoke for node command...

Incorrect Authorization

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incorrect Authorization via the node.invoke parameters. An attacker can execute arbitrary commands on connected node hosts by injecting internal control fields into the parameters,...