Understanding and Evaluating Claw-Like Agent Security through a Computer-Systems Lens

Claw-like AI agents e.g., OpenClaw are always-on processes with persistent access to credentials, files, tools, and external services. They take on system-level responsibilities -- installing packages, maintaining state, scheduling subtasks, and mediating I/O -- making security failures far more...

CVE-2026-30741

A remote code execution RCE vulnerability in OpenClaw Agent Platform v2026.2.6 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Request-Side prompt injection attack...

Agent Privilege Separation in OpenClaw: A Structural Defense against Prompt Injection

Prompt injection remains one of the most practical attack vectors against LLM-integrated applications. We replicate the Microsoft LLMail-Inject benchmark Greshake et al., 2024 against current generation models running inside OpenClaw, an open source multitool agent platform. Our proposed defense...

CVE-2026-30741

A remote code execution RCE vulnerability in OpenClaw Agent Platform v2026.2.6 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Request-Side prompt injection attack...

Don't Let the Claw Grip Your Hand: A Security Analysis and Defense Framework for OpenClaw

Code agents powered by large language models can execute shell commands on behalf of users, introducing severe security vulnerabilities. This paper presents a two-phase security analysis of the OpenClaw platform. As an open-source AI agent framework that operates locally, OpenClaw can be integrat...