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 affected by BASH_ENV / ENV startup-file injection into spawned shell commands

Summary BASHENV / ENV startup-file injection could lead to unintended pre-command shell execution when attacker-controlled environment values were admitted and then inherited by host command execution paths. Affected Packages / Versions - Package: openclaw npm - Affected: = 2026.2.19-2 - Fixed on...

OpenClaw has stored XSS in exported session HTML viewer via markdown/raw-HTML rendering

Summary The exported session HTML viewer allowed stored XSS when untrusted session content included raw HTML markdown tokens or unescaped metadata fields. Impact Opening a crafted exported HTML session could execute attacker-controlled JavaScript in the viewer context. This can expose session...

OpenClaw: Sandbox media fallback tmp symlink alias bypass allows host file reads outside sandboxRoot

Summary A sandbox path validation bypass in openclaw allows host file reads outside sandboxRoot via the media path fallback tmp flow when the fallback tmp root is a symlink alias. Affected Packages / Versions - Package: npm openclaw - Affected versions: without verifying that fallback path was a...

OpenClaw's `tools.exec.safeBins` PATH-hijack allowed trojan binaries to bypass allowlist checks

Summary tools.exec.safeBins allowlist checks could be bypassed by PATH-hijacked binaries, allowing execution of attacker-controlled trojan binaries under an allowlisted executable name. Affected Packages / Versions - Package: openclaw npm - Latest published version at triage time: 2026.2.17 -...

OpenClaw Improperly Neutralizes Line Breaks in systemd Unit Generation Enables Local Command Execution (Linux)

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...

OpenClaw has a Trusted-proxy Control UI pairing bypass which allows unpaired node sessions

Summary A trusted-proxy Control UI pairing bypass accepted client.id=control-ui without device identity checks. The bypass did not require operator role, so an authenticated node role session could connect unpaired and reach node event methods. Impact With trusted-proxy authentication enabled, a...

OpenClaw Loopback CDP probe can leak Gateway token to local listener

Summary A local process can capture the OpenClaw Gateway auth token from Chrome CDP probe traffic on loopback. Details Affected versions inject x-openclaw-relay-token for loopback CDP URLs, and CDP reachability probes send that header to /json/version. If an attacker controls the probed loopback...

OpenClaw has a Command Injection via unescaped environment assignments in Windows Scheduled Task script generation

Summary A command injection vulnerability existed in Windows Scheduled Task script generation for OpenClaw. Environment values were written into gateway.cmd using unquoted set KEY=VALUE, which allowed Windows shell metacharacters in config-provided environment variables to break out of assignment...

OpenClaw has a Discord `allowFrom` slug-collision authorization bypass

OpenClaw supports Discord allowlists using either user IDs or names/tags. Name/tag matching depends on slug normalization, so different user tags can collide to the same slug and unintentionally satisfy a name-based allowlist entry. Affected Packages / Versions - Package: openclaw npm - Affected...

OpenClaw has an opt-in insecure Control UI auth over plaintext HTTP could allow privileged access

Description In affected releases, when an operator explicitly enabled gateway.controlUi.allowInsecureAuth: true and exposed the gateway over plaintext HTTP, Control UI authentication could permit privileged operator access without the intended device identity + pairing guarantees. This required a...

OpenClaw has a IPv6 multicast SSRF classifier bypass

Summary OpenClaw's SSRF IP classifier did not treat IPv6 multicast literals ff00::/8 as blocked/private-internal. This allowed literal multicast hosts to pass SSRF preflight checks. Impact A bypass in address classification existed for IPv6 multicast literals. OpenClaw's network fetch/navigation...

OpenClaw exec allowlist safeBins short-option bypass could permit arbitrary file write

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...

OpenClaw has auth inconsistency on local Browser Extension Relay /extension endpoint

Summary When the optional Chrome extension relay is enabled, /extension accepted unauthenticated WebSocket upgrades while /json/ and /cdp required auth. Affected Packages / Versions - Package: openclaw npm - Affected: = 2026.2.17 - Latest published npm version at triage time: 2026.2.17 Impact Thi...

OpenClaw's tools.exec.safeBins sort long-option abbreviation bypass can skip exec approval in allowlist mode

Summary In OpenClaw, tools.exec.safeBins validation for sort could be bypassed via GNU long-option abbreviations in allowlist mode, allowing approval-free execution paths that should require approval. Affected Packages / Versions - Ecosystem: npm - Package: openclaw - Latest published version...

OpenClaw has a Feishu allowFrom authorization bypass via display-name collision

Summary Feishu allowlist authorization could be bypassed by display-name collision. Details channels.feishu.allowFrom is documented as an ID-based allowlist openid list, but Feishu policy matching accepted mutable sender display names in the same namespace. An attacker could set a display name...

OpenClaw has macOS `system.run` allowlist bypass via quoted command substitution

Summary In OpenClaw's macOS node-host path, system.run allowlist parsing in security=allowlist mode failed to reject command substitution tokens when they appeared inside double-quoted shell text. Because of that gap, payloads like echo "ok $id" could be treated as allowlist hits first executable...

OpenClaw shell-env fallback trusted startup env and could execute attacker-influenced login-shell paths

Summary OpenClaw shell-env fallback trusted startup environment values and could execute attacker-influenced login-shell startup paths before loading env keys. Affected Packages / Versions - Package: openclaw npm - Affected versions: = 2026.1.5 and = 2026.2.21-2 - Fixed on main:...

OpenClaw plugin runtime command execution is part of trusted plugin boundary

Summary OpenClaw plugins/extensions run in-process and are treated as trusted code. This advisory tracks trust-boundary clarification around plugin runtime command execution runtime.system.runCommandWithTimeout. Impact Plugins already execute with the same OS privileges as the OpenClaw process...

OpenClaw unpaired device identity can bypass operator pairing and self-assign operator scopes with shared auth

Summary A client using shared gateway auth could attach an unpaired device identity and request elevated operator scopes including operator.admin before pairing approval, enabling privilege escalation. Impact Attackers with valid shared gateway auth could self-assign higher operator scopes by...

OpenClaw browser navigation guard allowed non-network URL schemes, enabling authenticated browser-tool users to access file:// local files

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 -...

OpenClaw Windows Scheduled Task script generation allowed local command injection via unsafe cmd argument handling

Summary OpenClaw Windows Scheduled Task script generation allowed unsafe argument handling in generated gateway.cmd files. In vulnerable versions, cmd metacharacter-only values could be emitted without safe quoting/escaping, which could lead to unintended command execution when the scheduled task...

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 -...

OpenClaw: MS Teams fileConsent/invoke missing conversation binding allowed cross-conversation pending-upload consumption

Summary In openclaw MS Teams file-consent flow, pending uploads were authorized by uploadId alone. fileConsent/invoke did not verify the invoke conversation against the conversation that created the pending upload. Impact An attacker who obtained a valid uploadId within TTL could trigger...

OpenClaw's owner-only gateway tool access checks were incomplete in specific authenticated DM flows

Summary In authenticated non-owner DM sessions, a narrow tool-invocation path could reach broader-than-intended owner-only gateway actions. Impact This requires an authenticated non-owner sender in a DM session and a specific tool invocation path. No unauthenticated access is involved, and this...

OpenClaw: shell-env trusted-prefix fallback allowed attacker-controlled binary execution via $SHELL

Summary shell-env fallback trusted prefix-based executable paths for $SHELL, allowing execution of attacker-controlled binaries in local/runtime-env influence scenarios. Details In affected versions, shell selection accepted either: 1. a shell listed in /etc/shells, or 2. any executable under...

OpenClaw: BlueBubbles beta plugin webhook auth hardening (remove passwordless fallback)

Summary BlueBubbles webhook auth in the optional beta iMessage plugin allowed a passwordless fallback path. In some reverse-proxy/local routing setups, this could allow unauthenticated webhook events. Affected Component and Scope - Component: extensions/bluebubbles webhook handler - Scope: only...

OpenClaw affected by iMessage remote attachment SCP hardening (strict host-key checks and remoteHost validation)

Summary Remote iMessage attachment fetches used SCP with trust-on-first-use host-key behavior and accepted unvalidated remote host tokens. Before the fix: - SCP used StrictHostKeyChecking=accept-new in the remote attachment path. - channels.imessage.remoteHost was not validated as a strict SSH ho...

OpenClaw: safeBins static default trusted dirs allow writable-dir binary hijack (`jq`)

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...

OpenClaw skills-install-download: tar.bz2 extraction bypassed archive safety parity checks (local DoS)

Summary The tar.bz2 installer path in src/agents/skills-install-download.ts used shell tar preflight/extract logic that did not share the same hardening guarantees as the centralized archive extractor. This allowed crafted .tar.bz2 archives to bypass special-entry blocking and extracted-size...

OpenClaw: Discord voice transcript owner-flag omission could expose owner-only tools in mixed-trust channels

Summary In [email protected], the Discord voice transcript path called agentCommand... without senderIsOwner, and agentCommand defaults missing senderIsOwner to true. This could allow a non-owner voice participant in the same channel to reach owner-only tool surfaces gateway, cron during voice...

OpenClaw: Sandboxed sessions_spawn(runtime="acp") bypassed sandbox inheritance and allowed host ACP initialization

Summary Sandboxed sessionsspawnruntime="acp" could bypass sandbox inheritance and initialize host-side ACP runtime. The fix now fail-closes ACP spawn from sandboxed requester sessions and rejects sandbox="require" for runtime="acp". Affected Packages / Versions - Package: openclaw npm - Latest...

MCP NMAP Server has an Injection vulnerability

A vulnerability was detected in PhialsBasement nmap-mcp-server up to bee6d23547d57ae02460022f7c78ac0893092e38. Affected by this issue is the function childprocess.exec of the file src/index.ts of the component Nmap CLI Command Handler. The manipulation results in command injection. The attack may...

OpenClaw has encoded-path auth bypass in plugin `/api/channels` route classification

Summary Updated March 2, 2026 Encoded alternate-path requests could bypass plugin route auth checks for /api/channels/ due to canonicalization depth mismatch in vulnerable builds. Affected Packages / Versions - Package: openclaw npm - Latest published vulnerable version: 2026.3.1 - Affected range...

OpenClaw: Discord DM reaction ingress missed dmPolicy/allowFrom checks in restricted setups

Summary In OpenClaw = 2026.2.25 Fix Commits - aedf62ac7e669a89c7b299201bf6537dc6b12e0e Release Process Note patchedversions is pre-set to the release 2026.2.25 so after npm release the advisory is published. Thanks @tdjackey for reporting...

OpenClaw: ZIP extraction race could write outside destination via parent symlink rebind

Summary ZIP extraction in OpenClaw could be raced into writing outside the intended destination directory via parent-directory symlink rebind between validation and write. Affected Packages / Versions - Package: openclaw npm - Vulnerable versions: = 2026.3.1 - Latest published vulnerable version...

OpenClaw: Unified root-bound write hardening for browser output and related path-boundary flows

Summary A path-confinement bypass in browser output handling allowed writes outside intended roots in openclaw versions up to and including 2026.3.1. The fix unifies root-bound, file-descriptor-verified write semantics and canonical path-boundary validation across browser output and related...

OpenClaw's web tools strict URL guard could lose DNS pinning when env proxy is configured

Summary openclaw web tools strict URL fetch paths could lose DNS pinning when environment proxy variables are configured HTTPPROXY/HTTPSPROXY/ALLPROXY, including lowercase variants. In affected builds, strict URL checks for example webfetch and citation redirect resolution validated one destinati...

OpenClaw's Node system.run approval hardening wrapper semantic drift can execute unintended local scripts

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...

OpenClaw: Node camera URL payload host-binding bypass allowed gateway fetch pivots

Summary OpenClaw accepted camera.snap / camera.clip node payload url fields and downloaded them on the gateway/agent host without binding downloads to the resolved node host. In OpenClaw's documented trust model, paired nodes are in the same operator trust boundary, so this is scoped as...

OpenClaw has pre-auth webhook body parsing that can enable unauthenticated slow-request DoS

Impact OpenClaw webhook handlers for BlueBubbles and Google Chat accepted and parsed request bodies before authentication and signature checks on vulnerable releases. This allowed unauthenticated clients to hold parser work open with slow/oversized request bodies and degrade availability...

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...

SiYuan's direct SQL Query API accessible to Reader-level users enables unauthorized database access

Summary /api/query/sql allows users to run SQL directly, but it only checks basic auth, not admin rights, any logged-in user, even readers, can run any SQL query on the database. Details The vulnerable endpoint is in kernel/api/sql.go go func SQLc gin.Context ret := gulu.Ret.NewResult defer...

Craft CMS has potential authenticated Remote Code Execution via Twig SSTI

For this to work, the attacker must have administrator access to the Craft Control Panel, and allowAdminChanges must be enabled, which is against Craft CMS' recommendations for any non-dev environment. https://craftcms.com/knowledge-base/securing-craftset-allowAdminChanges-to-false-in-production...

Craft CMS has Permission Bypass and IDOR in Duplicate Entry Action

Description The "Duplicate" entry action does not properly verify if the user has permission to perform this action on the specific target elements. Even with only "View Entries" permission where the "Duplicate" action is restricted in the UI, a user can bypass this restriction by sending a direc...

Craft CMS has Twig Function Blocklist Bypass

Craft CMS implements a blocklist to prevent potentially dangerous PHP functions from being called via Twig non-Closure arrow functions. In order to be able to successfully execute this attack, you need to either have allowAdminChanges enabled on production, or a compromised admin account, or an...

Craft CMS: Entries Authorship Spoofing via Mass Assignment

Description The entry creation process allows for Mass Assignment of the authorId attribute. A user with "Create Entries" permission can inject the authorIds or authorId parameter into the POST request, which the backend processes without verifying if the current user is authorized to assign...

Craft CMS Vulnerable to Authenticated RCE via "craft.app.fs.write()" in Twig Templates

Summary An authenticated administrator can achieve Remote Code Execution RCE by injecting a Server-Side Template Injection SSTI payload into Twig template fields e.g., Email Templates. By calling the craft.app.fs.write method, an attacker can write a malicious PHP script to a web-accessible...

NocoDB Vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Rich Text Cells

Summary Rich text cell content rendered via v-html without sanitization, enabling stored XSS. Details Rich text in TextArea.vue was parsed by markdown-it with html: true and injected via v-html without DOMPurify. A user with Editor role can inject arbitrary HTML that executes for all viewers...

NocoDB Vulnerable to Stored Cross-site Scripting via Comments

Summary Comments rendered via v-html without sanitization, enabling stored XSS. Details Comments in Comments.vue were parsed by markdown-it with html: true and injected via v-html without DOMPurify. A user with Commenter role can inject arbitrary HTML that executes for all viewers. Impact Stored...