OpenClaw: `/phone arm`/`/phone disarm` Bypasses `operator.admin` Scope Check for External Channels

Summary /phone arm//phone disarm Bypasses operator.admin Scope Check for External Channels Current Maintainer Triage - Status: open - Normalized severity: medium - Assessment: Maintainers accepted this issue, fixed it in aa66ae1fc797d3298cc409ed2c5da69a89950a45 on 2026-03-27, and that fix shipped...

GHSA-5R8F-96GM-5J6G OpenClaw Gateway `operator.write` can reach admin-only session reset via `chat.send` `/reset`

Summary The chat.send path reused command authorization to trigger /reset session rotation even though direct session reset is an admin-only control-plane operation. Impact A write-scoped gateway caller could rotate a target session, archive the prior transcript state, and force a new session id...

Incorrect Authorization

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incorrect Authorization in the /pair approve process. An attacker can gain unauthorized approval of device pairing requests with elevated privileges by submitting a device pairing request...

CVE-2026-33579

OpenClaw before 2026.3.28 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability in the /pair approve command path that fails to forward caller scopes into the core approval check. A caller with pairing privileges but without admin privileges can approve pending device requests asking for broader scopes...

CVE-2026-33579

OpenClaw before 2026.3.28 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability in the /pair approve command path that fails to forward caller scopes into the core approval check. A caller with pairing privileges but without admin privileges can approve pending device requests asking for broader scopes...

GHSA-H4JX-HJR3-FHGC OpenClaw: Gateway Plugin Subagent Fallback `deleteSession` Uses Synthetic `operator.admin`

Summary Gateway Plugin Subagent Fallback deleteSession Uses Synthetic operator.admin Affected Packages / Versions - Package: openclaw - Affected versions: = 2026.3.24 - First patched version: 2026.3.25 - Latest published npm version at verification time: 2026.3.24 Details Gateway plugin subagent...

OpenClaw: Gateway Plugin HTTP Auth Grants Unrestricted operator.admin Runtime Scope to All Callers

Summary Gateway Plugin HTTP auth: "gateway" Mints operator.admin Runtime Scope Affected Packages / Versions - Package: openclaw - Affected versions: = 2026.3.24 - First patched version: 2026.3.25 - Latest published npm version at verification time: 2026.3.24 Details Gateway-authenticated plugin...

PT-2026-31980

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.3.25 Description The software contains a privilege escalation issue in gateway-authenticated plugin HTTP routes. The issue incorrectly assigns operator.admin runtime scope, bypassing caller-granted scopes. This...

Missing Authorization

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Missing Authorization due to missing enforcement of the operator.admin scope in mutating internal ACP chat commands. An attacker can perform unauthorized mutating control-plane actions by...

CVE-2026-22172

OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.3.12 contain an authorization bypass vulnerability in the WebSocket connect path that allows shared-token or password-authenticated connections to self-declare elevated scopes without server-side binding. Attackers can exploit this logic flaw to present unauthorize...

GHSA-HFPR-JHPQ-X4RM OpenClaw: `operator.write` chat.send could reach admin-only config writes

Summary A gateway client authenticated with operator.write could route /config set or /config unset through chat.send and reach persistent config mutation even though direct config RPC methods are admin-scoped. Affected Packages / Versions - Package: openclaw npm - Latest published vulnerable...

CVE-2025-5350

SSRF and Reflected XSS Vulnerabilities exist in multiple WSO2 products within the deprecated Try-It feature, which was accessible only to administrative users. This feature accepted user-supplied URLs without proper validation, leading to server-side request forgery SSRF. Additionally, the...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-41942

JupyterHub is software that allows one to create a multi-user server for Jupyter notebooks. Prior to versions 4.1.6 and 5.1.0, if a user is granted the admin:users scope, they may escalate their own privileges by making themselves a full admin user. The impact is relatively small in that...