Command Injection

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Command Injection via the keychain credential refresh path. An attacker can execute arbitrary OS commands by supplying crafted OAuth tokens that are incorporated into shell command...

OpenClaw: Prevent shell injection in macOS keychain credential write

Summary On macOS, the Claude CLI keychain credential refresh path constructed a shell command to write the updated JSON blob into Keychain via security add-generic-password -w .... Because OAuth tokens are user-controlled data, this created an OS command injection risk. The fix avoids invoking a...

GHSA-4564-PVR2-QQ4H OpenClaw: Prevent shell injection in macOS keychain credential write

Summary On macOS, the Claude CLI keychain credential refresh path constructed a shell command to write the updated JSON blob into Keychain via security add-generic-password -w .... Because OAuth tokens are user-controlled data, this created an OS command injection risk. The fix avoids invoking a...

Directory Traversal

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal via the browser control API's handling of output paths for trace and download files. An attacker can write files to arbitrary locations on the filesystem by supplying...

OpenClaw has a path traversal in browser trace/download output paths may allow arbitrary file writes

Summary OpenClaw’s browser control API accepted user-supplied output paths for trace/download files without consistently constraining writes to OpenClaw-managed temporary directories. Impact If an attacker can access the browser control API, they could attempt to write trace/download output files...

GHSA-GQ9C-WG68-GWJ2 OpenClaw has a path traversal in browser trace/download output paths may allow arbitrary file writes

Summary OpenClaw’s browser control API accepted user-supplied output paths for trace/download files without consistently constraining writes to OpenClaw-managed temporary directories. Impact If an attacker can access the browser control API, they could attempt to write trace/download output files...

OpenClaw has a Path Traversal in Browser Download Functionality

Summary OpenClaw browser download helpers accepted an unsanitized output path. When invoked via the browser control gateway routes, this allowed path traversal to write downloads outside the intended OpenClaw temp downloads directory. This issue is not exposed via the AI agent tool schema no...

Directory Traversal

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal via the waitForDownloadViaPlaywright and downloadViaPlaywright functions. An attacker can write files outside the intended temporary downloads directory by supplying a...

GHSA-XWJM-J929-XQ7C OpenClaw has a Path Traversal in Browser Download Functionality

Summary OpenClaw browser download helpers accepted an unsanitized output path. When invoked via the browser control gateway routes, this allowed path traversal to write downloads outside the intended OpenClaw temp downloads directory. This issue is not exposed via the AI agent tool schema no...

From Clawdbot to OpenClaw: Practical Lessons in Building Secure Agents

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GHSA-V6C6-VQQG-W888 OpenClaw affected by potential code execution via unsafe hook module path handling in Gateway

Summary OpenClaw Gateway supports hook mappings with optional JavaScript/TypeScript transform modules. In affected versions, the gateway did not sufficiently constrain configured module paths before passing them to dynamic import. Under some configurations, a user who can modify gateway...

OpenClaw affected by potential code execution via unsafe hook module path handling in Gateway

Summary OpenClaw Gateway supports hook mappings with optional JavaScript/TypeScript transform modules. In affected versions, the gateway did not sufficiently constrain configured module paths before passing them to dynamic import. Under some configurations, a user who can modify gateway...

Directory Traversal

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal via the transcript file operations that use unsanitized sessionId and unvalidated sessionFile paths. An attacker can access arbitrary files outside the intended...

OpenClaw's unsanitized session ID enables path traversal in transcript file operations

Description OpenClaw versions = 2026.2.12 Fix Fixed by validating session IDs rejecting path separators / traversal sequences and enforcing sessions-directory containment for session transcript file operations. Fix Commits - 4199f9889f0c307b77096a229b9e085b8d856c26 Additional Hardening -...

GHSA-5XFQ-5MR7-426Q OpenClaw's unsanitized session ID enables path traversal in transcript file operations

Description OpenClaw versions = 2026.2.12 Fix Fixed by validating session IDs rejecting path separators / traversal sequences and enforcing sessions-directory containment for session transcript file operations. Fix Commits - 4199f9889f0c307b77096a229b9e085b8d856c26 Additional Hardening -...

OpenClaw inter-session prompts could be treated as direct user instructions

Summary Inter-session messages sent via sessionssend could be interpreted as direct end-user instructions because they were persisted as role: "user" without provenance metadata. Affected Packages / Versions - Package: openclaw npm - Affected versions: = 2026.2.13 Impact A delegated or internal...

Origin Validation Error

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Origin Validation Error via the sessionssend sourceTool. An attacker can cause privileged actions to be performed by injecting crafted inter-session prompts that are misinterpreted as...

GHSA-W5C7-9QQW-6645 OpenClaw inter-session prompts could be treated as direct user instructions

Summary Inter-session messages sent via sessionssend could be interpreted as direct end-user instructions because they were persisted as role: "user" without provenance metadata. Affected Packages / Versions - Package: openclaw npm - Affected versions: = 2026.2.13 Impact A delegated or internal...

OpenClaw: Command hijacking via unsafe PATH handling (bootstrapping + node-host PATH overrides)

Command hijacking via PATH handling Discovered: 2026-02-04 Reporter: @akhmittra Summary OpenClaw previously accepted untrusted PATH sources in limited situations. In affected versions, this could cause OpenClaw to resolve and execute an unintended binary "command hijacking" when running host...

GHSA-JQPQ-MGVM-F9R6 OpenClaw: Command hijacking via unsafe PATH handling (bootstrapping + node-host PATH overrides)

Command hijacking via PATH handling Discovered: 2026-02-04 Reporter: @akhmittra Summary OpenClaw previously accepted untrusted PATH sources in limited situations. In affected versions, this could cause OpenClaw to resolve and execute an unintended binary "command hijacking" when running host...