Directory Traversal

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal via the waitForDownloadViaPlaywright and downloadViaPlaywright functions. An attacker can write files outside the intended temporary downloads directory by supplying a...

GHSA-XWJM-J929-XQ7C OpenClaw has a Path Traversal in Browser Download Functionality

Summary OpenClaw browser download helpers accepted an unsanitized output path. When invoked via the browser control gateway routes, this allowed path traversal to write downloads outside the intended OpenClaw temp downloads directory. This issue is not exposed via the AI agent tool schema no...

OpenClaw has a Path Traversal in Browser Download Functionality

Summary OpenClaw browser download helpers accepted an unsanitized output path. When invoked via the browser control gateway routes, this allowed path traversal to write downloads outside the intended OpenClaw temp downloads directory. This issue is not exposed via the AI agent tool schema no...

From Clawdbot to OpenClaw: Practical Lessons in Building Secure Agents

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GHSA-V6C6-VQQG-W888 OpenClaw affected by potential code execution via unsafe hook module path handling in Gateway

Summary OpenClaw Gateway supports hook mappings with optional JavaScript/TypeScript transform modules. In affected versions, the gateway did not sufficiently constrain configured module paths before passing them to dynamic import. Under some configurations, a user who can modify gateway...

OpenClaw affected by potential code execution via unsafe hook module path handling in Gateway

Summary OpenClaw Gateway supports hook mappings with optional JavaScript/TypeScript transform modules. In affected versions, the gateway did not sufficiently constrain configured module paths before passing them to dynamic import. Under some configurations, a user who can modify gateway...

Directory Traversal

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal via the transcript file operations that use unsanitized sessionId and unvalidated sessionFile paths. An attacker can access arbitrary files outside the intended...

vantuz (>=3.3.2 <=3.3.7) potentially affected by CVE-2026-28482 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: CVE-2026-28482 Source advisory: OSV:GHSA-5XFQ-5MR7-426Q...

GHSA-5XFQ-5MR7-426Q OpenClaw's unsanitized session ID enables path traversal in transcript file operations

Description OpenClaw versions = 2026.2.12 Fix Fixed by validating session IDs rejecting path separators / traversal sequences and enforcing sessions-directory containment for session transcript file operations. Fix Commits - 4199f9889f0c307b77096a229b9e085b8d856c26 Additional Hardening -...

OpenClaw's unsanitized session ID enables path traversal in transcript file operations

Description OpenClaw versions = 2026.2.12 Fix Fixed by validating session IDs rejecting path separators / traversal sequences and enforcing sessions-directory containment for session transcript file operations. Fix Commits - 4199f9889f0c307b77096a229b9e085b8d856c26 Additional Hardening -...

Origin Validation Error

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Origin Validation Error via the sessionssend sourceTool. An attacker can cause privileged actions to be performed by injecting crafted inter-session prompts that are misinterpreted as...

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-W5C7-9QQW-6645...

OpenClaw inter-session prompts could be treated as direct user instructions

Summary Inter-session messages sent via sessionssend could be interpreted as direct end-user instructions because they were persisted as role: "user" without provenance metadata. Affected Packages / Versions - Package: openclaw npm - Affected versions: = 2026.2.13 Impact A delegated or internal...

GHSA-W5C7-9QQW-6645 OpenClaw inter-session prompts could be treated as direct user instructions

Summary Inter-session messages sent via sessionssend could be interpreted as direct end-user instructions because they were persisted as role: "user" without provenance metadata. Affected Packages / Versions - Package: openclaw npm - Affected versions: = 2026.2.13 Impact A delegated or internal...

Reliance on Untrusted Inputs in a Security Decision

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Reliance on Untrusted Inputs in a Security Decision via unsafe handling of the PATH environment variable. An authenticated attacker with access to an execution surface can execute arbitra...

vantuz (>=3.3.2 <=3.3.7) potentially affected by CVE-2026-29610 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: CVE-2026-29610 Source advisory: OSV:GHSA-JQPQ-MGVM-F9R6...

GHSA-JQPQ-MGVM-F9R6 OpenClaw: Command hijacking via unsafe PATH handling (bootstrapping + node-host PATH overrides)

Command hijacking via PATH handling Discovered: 2026-02-04 Reporter: @akhmittra Summary OpenClaw previously accepted untrusted PATH sources in limited situations. In affected versions, this could cause OpenClaw to resolve and execute an unintended binary "command hijacking" when running host...

OpenClaw: Command hijacking via unsafe PATH handling (bootstrapping + node-host PATH overrides)

Command hijacking via PATH handling Discovered: 2026-02-04 Reporter: @akhmittra Summary OpenClaw previously accepted untrusted PATH sources in limited situations. In affected versions, this could cause OpenClaw to resolve and execute an unintended binary "command hijacking" when running host...

vantuz (>=3.3.2 <=3.3.7) potentially affected by CVE-2026-28476 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: CVE-2026-28476 Source advisory: OSV:GHSA-PG2V-8XWH-QHCC...

GHSA-PG2V-8XWH-QHCC OpenClaw affected by SSRF in optional Tlon (Urbit) extension authentication

Summary The optional Tlon Urbit extension previously accepted a user-provided base URL for authentication and used it to construct an outbound HTTP request, enabling server-side request forgery SSRF in affected deployments. Impact This only affects deployments that have installed and configured t...