Directory Traversal

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal via the upload action in the browser tool when user-supplied file paths are not properly validated. An authenticated attacker can access arbitrary files on the server ...

OpenClaw has a path traversal in browser upload allows local file read

Summary Authenticated attackers can read arbitrary files from the Gateway host by supplying absolute paths or path traversal sequences to the browser tool's upload action. The server passed these paths to Playwright's setInputFiles APIs without restricting them to a safe root. Severity remains Hi...

GHSA-CV7M-C9JX-VG7Q OpenClaw has a path traversal in browser upload allows local file read

Summary Authenticated attackers can read arbitrary files from the Gateway host by supplying absolute paths or path traversal sequences to the browser tool's upload action. The server passed these paths to Playwright's setInputFiles APIs without restricting them to a safe root. Severity remains Hi...

Incorrect Authorization

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incorrect Authorization via monitor-provider.ts. An attacker can gain unauthorized group access by leveraging DM pairing-store identities to satisfy group allowlist authorization, even if...

GHSA-G34W-4XQQ-H79M OpenClaw iMessage group allowlist authorization inherited DM pairing-store identities

Summary Under iMessage groupPolicy=allowlist, group authorization could be satisfied by sender identities coming from the DM pairing store, broadening DM trust into group contexts. Details Affected component: src/imessage/monitor/monitor-provider.ts. Vulnerable logic derived effectiveGroupAllowFr...

OpenClaw allows unauthenticated discovery TXT records to steer routing and TLS pinning

Summary Discovery beacons Bonjour/mDNS and DNS-SD include TXT records such as lanHost, tailnetDns, gatewayPort, and gatewayTlsSha256. TXT records are unauthenticated. Prior to the fix, some clients treated TXT values as authoritative routing/pinning inputs: - iOS and macOS: used TXT-provided host...

GHSA-PV58-549P-QH99 OpenClaw allows unauthenticated discovery TXT records to steer routing and TLS pinning

Summary Discovery beacons Bonjour/mDNS and DNS-SD include TXT records such as lanHost, tailnetDns, gatewayPort, and gatewayTlsSha256. TXT records are unauthenticated. Prior to the fix, some clients treated TXT values as authoritative routing/pinning inputs: - iOS and macOS: used TXT-provided host...

PT-2026-22433

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 -...

PT-2026-20368

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.14 clawdbot versions prior to 2026.1.24-3 Description Browser-facing localhost mutation routes accepted cross-origin browser requests without explicit Origin/Referer validation. Loopback binding reduces remote...

PT-2026-23544

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.14 clawdbot versions prior to 2026.1.24-3 Description The software contains a webhook routing issue in the Google Chat monitor component. This allows for cross-account policy context misrouting when multiple...

PT-2026-22454

Summary Base64-backed media inputs could be decoded into Buffers before enforcing decoded-size budgets. An attacker supplying oversized base64 payloads can force large allocations, causing memory pressure and denial of service. Attack Scenario Notes - Recommended deployments bind the gateway to...

PT-2026-23537

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.13 Description The browser control API in OpenClaw accepts user-supplied output paths for trace and download files without consistently constraining writes to temporary directories. Attackers with API access c...

PT-2026-22440

Summary URL-backed media fetch handling allocated the entire response payload in memory arrayBuffer before enforcing maxBytes, allowing oversized responses to cause memory exhaustion. Affected Versions - openclaw npm: res.writeHead200,"content-type":"application/octet-stream";forlet...

PT-2026-22495

Summary The BlueBubbles extension accepted attacker-controlled local filesystem paths via mediaPath and could read arbitrary local files from disk before sending them as media attachments. Details When sendBlueBubblesMedia received a non-HTTP media source, the previous implementation resolved it ...

PT-2026-22494

Summary openclaw could start the sandbox browser bridge server without authentication. When the sandboxed browser is enabled, openclaw runs a local loopback HTTP bridge that exposes browser control endpoints for example /profiles, /tabs, /tabs/open, /agent/. Due to missing auth wiring in the...

PT-2026-22493

Summary OpenClaw’s browser control API accepted user-supplied output paths for trace/download files without consistently constraining writes to OpenClaw-managed temporary directories. Impact If an attacker can access the browser control API, they could attempt to write trace/download output files...

PT-2026-22441

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...

PT-2026-22458

Summary OpenClaw's exec-approvals allowlist supports a small set of "safe bins" intended to be stdin-only no positional file arguments when running tools.exec.host=gateway|node with security=allowlist. In affected configurations, the allowlist validation checked pre-expansion argv tokens, but...

PT-2026-22446

Summary Multiple webhook handlers accepted and buffered request bodies without a strict unified byte/time limit. A remote unauthenticated attacker could send oversized payloads and cause memory pressure, degrading availability. Details Affected packages: - openclaw npm: 2026.2.12 - clawdbot npm:...

PT-2026-23564

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.14 Description The BlueBubbles extension in OpenClaw contains a local file inclusion issue in how media paths are handled. This allows attackers to read arbitrary files from the local filesystem. The...