PT-2026-26240

Summary The Lobster extension tool execution path used a Windows shell fallback shell: true after spawn failures EINVAL/ENOENT. In that fallback path, shell metacharacters in command arguments can be interpreted by the shell, enabling command injection. Affected Packages / Versions - Package:...

PT-2026-26391

Summary In openclaw= 2026.2.24 planned next npm release - Latest published npm version at triage time 2026-02-24: 2026.2.23 Root Cause - Default safe-bin trusted directories included package-manager/user-managed paths. - Trust decision was directory-membership only for resolved executable paths...

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-2026-26228

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...

PT-2026-24673

Summary A command injection vulnerability exists in OpenClaw’s Linux systemd unit generation path. When rendering Environment= entries, attacker-controlled values are not rejected for CR/LF, and systemdEscapeArg uses an incorrect whitespace-matching regex. This allows newline injection to break o...

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-2026-26389

Summary In some opt-in sandbox configurations, the experimental apply patch tool did not consistently apply workspace-only checks to mounted paths for example /agent/.... Impact This does not affect default installs. Default posture: - agents.defaults.sandbox.mode=off sandbox disabled by default ...

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 -...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Command Injection

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Command Injection via the POST /tools/invoke endpoint. An attacker can gain unauthorized command execution and escalate privileges by invoking high-risk session orchestration tools and...

vantuz (>=3.3.2 <=3.3.7) potentially affected by unknown CVE via openclaw (=0.0.1)

openclaw NPM version =0.0.1 is affected by a known vulnerability. The following packages have a transitive dependency on openclaw and may be impacted: - vantuz =3.3.2, =3.3.7 Source cves: unknown CVE Source advisory: OSV:GHSA-943Q-MWMV-HHVH...

GHSA-943Q-MWMV-HHVH OpenClaw: Gateway /tools/invoke tool escalation + ACP permission auto-approval

Summary OpenClaw Gateway exposes an authenticated HTTP endpoint POST /tools/invoke intended for invoking a constrained set of tools. Two issues could combine to significantly increase blast radius in misconfigured or exposed deployments: - The HTTP gateway layer did not deny high-risk session...