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-2026-26393

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.3.2 Description OpenClaw contains a denial of service issue in webhook handlers for BlueBubbles and Google Chat. These handlers parse request bodies before authentication and signature validation. Unauthenticate...

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-2026-26409

Summary In OpenClaw = 2026.2.25 Fix Commits - aedf62ac7e669a89c7b299201bf6537dc6b12e0e Release Process Note patched versions is pre-set to the release 2026.2.25 so after npm release the advisory is published. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting...

PT-2026-26420

Summary channels..groups..toolsBySender could match a privileged sender policy using a colliding mutable identity value for example senderName or senderUsername when deployments used untyped keys. The fix introduces explicit typed sender keys id:, e164:, username:, name:, keeps legacy untyped key...

PT-2026-26012

Summary openclaw web tools strict URL fetch paths could lose DNS pinning when environment proxy variables are configured HTTP PROXY/HTTPS PROXY/ALL PROXY, including lowercase variants. In affected builds, strict URL checks for example web fetch and citation redirect resolution validated one...

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...

PT-2026-26006

Summary A local process can capture the OpenClaw Gateway auth token from Chrome CDP probe traffic on loopback. Details Affected versions inject x-openclaw-relay-token for loopback CDP URLs, and CDP reachability probes send that header to /json/version. If an attacker controls the probed loopback...

PT-2026-26388

Summary In [email protected], BlueBubbles group authorization could incorrectly treat DM pairing-store identities as group allowlist identities when dmPolicy=pairing and groupPolicy=allowlist. A sender that was only DM-paired not explicitly present in groupAllowFrom could pass group sender check...

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...

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PT-2026-26003

When sort is explicitly added to tools.exec.safeBins non-default, the --compress-program option can invoke an external helper and bypass the intended safe-bin approval constraints in allowlist mode. Affected Packages / Versions - Package: openclaw npm - Vulnerable versions: =2026.2.22. Once that...

PT-2026-26238

Summary In openclaw versions 2026.2.22 and 2026.2.23, the optional synology-chat channel plugin had an authorization fail-open condition: when dmPolicy was allowlist and allowedUserIds was empty/unset, unauthorized senders were still allowed through to agent dispatch. This is assessed as medium...

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...