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...

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...

GHSA-MWCG-WFQ3-4GJC OpenClaw's system.run approval TOCTOU via mutable symlink cwd target on node host

Summary In [email protected], approval-bound system.run on node hosts could be influenced by mutable symlink cwd targets between approval and execution. Details Approval matching on the gateway validated command/argv and binding fields, including cwd, as provided text. Node execution later used...

OpenClaw's system.run approval TOCTOU via mutable symlink cwd target on node host

Summary In [email protected], approval-bound system.run on node hosts could be influenced by mutable symlink cwd targets between approval and execution. Details Approval matching on the gateway validated command/argv and binding fields, including cwd, as provided text. Node execution later used...

Incorrect Authorization

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incorrect Authorization through a mismatch in wrapper-depth parsing in system.run. An attacker can bypass approval gating by crafting nested transparent dispatch wrappers, allowing...

GHSA-CCG8-46R6-9QGJ OpenClaw's dispatch-wrapper depth-cap mismatch can bypass shell-wrapper approval gating in system.run allowlist mode

Summary A wrapper-depth parsing mismatch in system.run allowed nested transparent dispatch wrappers for example repeated /usr/bin/env to suppress shell-wrapper detection while still matching allowlist resolution. In security=allowlist + ask=on-miss, this could bypass the expected approval prompt...

OpenClaw's dispatch-wrapper depth-cap mismatch can bypass shell-wrapper approval gating in system.run allowlist mode

Summary A wrapper-depth parsing mismatch in system.run allowed nested transparent dispatch wrappers for example repeated /usr/bin/env to suppress shell-wrapper detection while still matching allowlist resolution. In security=allowlist + ask=on-miss, this could bypass the expected approval prompt...

Command Injection

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Command Injection via the system.run shell-wrapper. An attacker can execute arbitrary shell commands outside the intended allowlisted command body by injecting SHELLOPTS and PS4 environme...

GHSA-2FGQ-7J6H-9RM4 OpenClaw has system.run shell-wrapper env injection via SHELLOPTS/PS4 can bypass allowlist intent (RCE)

Summary system.run allowed SHELLOPTS + PS4 environment injection to trigger command substitution during bash -lc xtrace expansion before the allowlisted command body executed. Affected Packages / Versions - Package: openclaw npm - Affected: = 2026.2.21-2 includes latest published npm version at...

OpenClaw has system.run shell-wrapper env injection via SHELLOPTS/PS4 can bypass allowlist intent (RCE)

Summary system.run allowed SHELLOPTS + PS4 environment injection to trigger command substitution during bash -lc xtrace expansion before the allowlisted command body executed. Affected Packages / Versions - Package: openclaw npm - Affected: = 2026.2.21-2 includes latest published npm version at...

PT-2026-26222

Summary system.run exec allowlist analysis treated wrapper binaries as the effective executable and did not fully unwrap env/shell-dispatch wrappers. This allowed wrapper-smuggled payloads for example env bash -lc ... to satisfy an allowlist entry for the wrapper while executing non-allowlisted...

PT-2026-26385

Summary system.run allowed SHELLOPTS + PS4 environment injection to trigger command substitution during bash -lc xtrace expansion before the allowlisted command body executed. Affected Packages / Versions - Package: openclaw npm - Affected: = 2026.2.21-2 includes latest published npm version at...

PT-2026-26404

Summary A wrapper-depth parsing mismatch in system.run allowed nested transparent dispatch wrappers for example repeated /usr/bin/env to suppress shell-wrapper detection while still matching allowlist resolution. In security=allowlist + ask=on-miss, this could bypass the expected approval prompt...

PT-2026-26228

Summary In [email protected], node system.run approval-path hardening rewrote wrapper command argv in a way that changed execution semantics. A command shown/approved as a shell payload for example echo SAFE could execute a different local script when wrapper argv were rewritten. Affected Package...

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...

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...

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...

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...