GHSA-X9CF-3W63-RPQ9 OpenClaw vulnerable to sensitive file disclosure via stageSandboxMedia

Summary When iMessage remote attachment fetching is enabled channels.imessage.remoteHost, stageSandboxMedia accepted arbitrary absolute paths and used SCP to copy them into local staging. If a non-attachment path reaches this flow, files outside expected iMessage attachment directories on the...

OpenClaw vulnerable to arbitrary file read via $include directive

Vulnerability Path traversal in config $include resolution allowed arbitrary local file reads outside the config directory boundary CWE-22. Attack Vectors 1. If an attacker can modify OpenClaw config, they can set $include to absolute paths for example /etc/passwd and read files accessible to the...

Directory Traversal

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal via the $include directive in configuration file resolution. An attacker can access arbitrary files outside the intended directory by specifying absolute or traversal...

GHSA-56PC-6HVP-4GV4 OpenClaw vulnerable to arbitrary file read via $include directive

Vulnerability Path traversal in config $include resolution allowed arbitrary local file reads outside the config directory boundary CWE-22. Attack Vectors 1. If an attacker can modify OpenClaw config, they can set $include to absolute paths for example /etc/passwd and read files accessible to the...

Incorrect Authorization

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incorrect Authorization via system.run when shell line-continuation and command substitution are used to bypass allowlist analysis. An attacker can execute unauthorized commands by crafti...

OpenClaw's system.run allowlist bypass via shell line-continuation command substitution

Summary In OpenClaw system.run allowlist mode, shell-wrapper analysis could be bypassed by splitting command substitution as $\ + newline + inside double quotes. Analysis treated the payload as allowlisted for example /bin/echo, while shell runtime folded the line continuation into $... and...

GHSA-9868-VXMX-W862 OpenClaw's system.run allowlist bypass via shell line-continuation command substitution

Summary In OpenClaw system.run allowlist mode, shell-wrapper analysis could be bypassed by splitting command substitution as $\ + newline + inside double quotes. Analysis treated the payload as allowlisted for example /bin/echo, while shell runtime folded the line continuation into $... and...

External Control of System or Configuration Setting

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to External Control of System or Configuration Setting via the collectConfigEnvVars function. An attacker can execute arbitrary code in the service runtime environment by injecting malicious...

OpenClaw's config env vars allowed startup env injection into service runtime

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

GHSA-8FMP-37RC-P5G7 OpenClaw's config env vars allowed startup env injection into service runtime

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

OpenClaw's shell env fallback trusts unvalidated SHELL path from host environment

The shell environment fallback path could invoke an attacker-controlled shell when SHELL was inherited from an untrusted host environment. In affected builds, shell-env loading used $SHELL -l -c 'env -0' without validating that SHELL points to a trusted executable. In threat-model terms, this...

Untrusted Search Path

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Untrusted Search Path through the SHELL environment variable fallback. An attacker can execute arbitrary commands by supplying a malicious path in the SHELL environment variable, which is...

OpenClaw's tools.exec.safeBins trusted PATH directories allowed binary shadowing in allowlist mode

Summary In openclaw allowlist mode, tools.exec.safeBins trusted PATH-derived directories for safe-bin resolution. A same-name binary placed in a trusted PATH directory could satisfy safe-bin checks and execute. Impact This is an allowlist bypass in exec policy that can lead to command execution i...

Untrusted Search Path

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Untrusted Search Path via tools.exec.safeBins. An attacker can execute arbitrary commands by placing a malicious binary with the same name as a trusted binary in a PATH-derived directory...

GHSA-QHRR-GRQP-6X2G OpenClaw's tools.exec.safeBins trusted PATH directories allowed binary shadowing in allowlist mode

Summary In openclaw allowlist mode, tools.exec.safeBins trusted PATH-derived directories for safe-bin resolution. A same-name binary placed in a trusted PATH directory could satisfy safe-bin checks and execute. Impact This is an allowlist bypass in exec policy that can lead to command execution i...

GHSA-RM2P-J3R7-4X4J OpenClaw's Slack reaction/pin sender-policy consistency issue in non-message ingress

Summary OpenClaw Slack monitor handled reaction and pin non-message events before applying sender-policy checks consistently. In affected versions, these events could be added to system-event context even when sender policy would not normally allow them. Affected Packages / Versions - Package: np...

OpenClaw's Slack reaction/pin sender-policy consistency issue in non-message ingress

Summary OpenClaw Slack monitor handled reaction and pin non-message events before applying sender-policy checks consistently. In affected versions, these events could be added to system-event context even when sender policy would not normally allow them. Affected Packages / Versions - Package: np...

Incorrect Authorization

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incorrect Authorization via system.run. An attacker can execute hidden commands under misleading approval or display text by supplying additional positional argv payloads that are not...

GHSA-6RCP-VXWF-3MFP OpenClaw's system.run shell-wrapper positional argv carriers could execute hidden commands under misleading approval text

Summary In openclaw up to and including 2026.2.23 latest npm release as of February 25, 2026, system.run shell-wrapper inputs could present misleading approval/display text while still carrying hidden positional argv payloads that execute at runtime. Affected Packages / Versions - Package: opencl...

OpenClaw's system.run shell-wrapper positional argv carriers could execute hidden commands under misleading approval text

Summary In openclaw up to and including 2026.2.23 latest npm release as of February 25, 2026, system.run shell-wrapper inputs could present misleading approval/display text while still carrying hidden positional argv payloads that execute at runtime. Affected Packages / Versions - Package: opencl...