OpenClaw: Hardlink alias checks could bypass workspace-only file boundaries in specific configurations

Summary In certain workspace-restricted configurations, OpenClaw could follow hardlink aliases inside the workspace that reference files outside the workspace boundary. By default, tools.fs.workspaceOnly is off. This primarily affects deployments that intentionally enable workspace-only filesyste...

Symlink Attack

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Symlink Attack in the tools.fs.workspaceOnly process when hardlink aliases inside the workspace reference files outside the workspace boundary. An attacker can access or modify files...

GHSA-3JX4-Q2M7-R496 OpenClaw: Hardlink alias checks could bypass workspace-only file boundaries in specific configurations

Summary In certain workspace-restricted configurations, OpenClaw could follow hardlink aliases inside the workspace that reference files outside the workspace boundary. By default, tools.fs.workspaceOnly is off. This primarily affects deployments that intentionally enable workspace-only filesyste...

Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties via the image tool when tools.fs.workspaceOnly is set to true but not enforced for mounted paths resolved by the sandbox file system...

GHSA-Q6QF-4P5J-R25G OpenClaw's image tool bypasses tools.fs.workspaceOnly on sandbox mount paths and exfiltrates out-of-workspace images

Summary In OpenClaw, the sandboxed image tool did not honor tools.fs.workspaceOnly=true for mounted paths resolved by the sandbox FS bridge. This allowed reading out-of-workspace mounted images for example /agent/ and forwarding those bytes to vision model providers. Impact Sandbox boundary bypas...

OpenClaw's image tool bypasses tools.fs.workspaceOnly on sandbox mount paths and exfiltrates out-of-workspace images

Summary In OpenClaw, the sandboxed image tool did not honor tools.fs.workspaceOnly=true for mounted paths resolved by the sandbox FS bridge. This allowed reading out-of-workspace mounted images for example /agent/ and forwarding those bytes to vision model providers. Impact Sandbox boundary bypas...

OpenClaw has agent avatar symlink traversal in gateway session metadata

Summary A crafted local avatar path could follow a symlink outside the agent workspace and return arbitrary file contents as a base64 data: URL in gateway responses. Impact - Confidentiality impact: local file read in the gateway process context. - Exfiltration path: agents.list can return the...

GHSA-X2FF-J5C2-GGPR OpenClaw: Slack interactive callbacks could skip configured sender checks in some shared-workspace flows

Impact In shared Slack workspace deployments that rely on sender restrictions allowFrom, DM policy, or channel user allowlists, some interactive callbacks blockaction, viewsubmission, viewclosed could be accepted before full sender authorization checks. In that scenario, an unauthorized workspace...

Incorrect Authorization

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incorrect Authorization in the processing of Slack interactive callbacks, specifically blockaction, viewsubmission, and viewclosed. An attacker can inject unauthorized system-event text...

PT-2026-26387

Impact In shared Slack workspace deployments that rely on sender restrictions allowFrom, DM policy, or channel user allowlists, some interactive callbacks block action, view submission, view closed could be accepted before full sender authorization checks. In that scenario, an unauthorized...

PT-2026-26384

Summary In OpenClaw, the sandboxed image tool did not honor tools.fs.workspaceOnly=true for mounted paths resolved by the sandbox FS bridge. This allowed reading out-of-workspace mounted images for example /agent/ and forwarding those bytes to vision model providers. Impact Sandbox boundary bypas...

OpenClaw has a workspace-only sandbox guard mismatch for @-prefixed absolute paths

A workspace-only file-system guard mismatch allowed @-prefixed absolute paths to bypass boundary validation in some tool path checks. Impact When tools.fs.workspaceOnly=true, certain @-prefixed absolute paths for example @/etc/passwd could be validated before canonicalization while runtime path...

Incorrect Behavior Order: Validate Before Canonicalize

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incorrect Behavior Order: Validate Before Canonicalize via the boundary validation process for @-prefixed absolute paths when tools.fs.workspaceOnly is set to true. An attacker can access...

GHSA-27CR-4P5M-74RJ OpenClaw has a workspace-only sandbox guard mismatch for @-prefixed absolute paths

A workspace-only file-system guard mismatch allowed @-prefixed absolute paths to bypass boundary validation in some tool path checks. Impact When tools.fs.workspaceOnly=true, certain @-prefixed absolute paths for example @/etc/passwd could be validated before canonicalization while runtime path...

OpenClaw: Experimental apply_patch may bypass workspace-only checks in opt-in sandbox mounts (off by default)

Summary In some opt-in sandbox configurations, the experimental applypatch 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 -...

Incorrect Authorization

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incorrect Authorization via the applypatch process. An attacker can gain unauthorized access to files or directories outside the intended workspace by exploiting insufficient enforcement ...

GHSA-H9XM-J4QG-FVPG OpenClaw: Experimental apply_patch may bypass workspace-only checks in opt-in sandbox mounts (off by default)

Summary In some opt-in sandbox configurations, the experimental applypatch 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 -...

GHSA-CFVJ-7RX7-FC7C OpenClaw: stageSandboxMedia destination symlink traversal can overwrite files outside sandbox workspace

Summary stageSandboxMedia allowed destination symlink traversal during media staging, which could overwrite files outside the sandbox workspace root. Impact When sandbox media staging handled inbound files, destination writes under media/inbound were not destination-alias-safe. If a symlink exist...

OpenClaw: stageSandboxMedia destination symlink traversal can overwrite files outside sandbox workspace

Summary stageSandboxMedia allowed destination symlink traversal during media staging, which could overwrite files outside the sandbox workspace root. Impact When sandbox media staging handled inbound files, destination writes under media/inbound were not destination-alias-safe. If a symlink exist...

Directory Traversal

Overview openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal in detectAndLoadPromptImages or loadImageFromRef. An attacker can access and load image data from out-of-workspace paths by referencing mounted paths in prompt text...