OpenClaw vulnerabilities
We track 357 vulnerabilities in OpenClaw products across 13 products. 357 are rated high or critical, and none are known to be exploited. The most recent was published on September 30, 2026.
Latest OpenClaw vulnerabilities
- 9.1 Critical severity
OpenClaw: Missing Authentication for Critical Functionality
OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.21 sandbox browser entrypoint launches x11vnc without authentication for noVNC observer sessions, allowing unauthenticated access to the VNC interface. Remote attackers on the host loopback interface can connect to the exposed
- 8.1 High severity
OpenClaw: Reliance on Untrusted Inputs in a Security Decision
OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.25 contain an authentication bypass vulnerability in the trusted-proxy Control UI pairing mechanism that accepts client.id=control-ui without proper device identity verification. An authenticated node role websocket client can
- 9.8 Critical severity
OpenClaw: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command
OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.22 fail to sanitize shell startup environment variables HOME and ZDOTDIR in the system.run function, allowing attackers to bypass command allowlist protections. Remote attackers can inject malicious startup files such as .bash
- 8.2 High severity
OpenClaw: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.26 contain a path traversal vulnerability in workspace boundary validation that allows attackers to write files outside the workspace through in-workspace symlinks pointing to non-existent out-of-root targets. The vulnerabilit
- 7.8 High severity
OpenClaw: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access
OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.25 contain a symlink traversal vulnerability in browser trace and download output path handling that allows local attackers to escape the managed temp root directory. An attacker with local access can create symlinks to route
- 9.8 Critical severity
OpenClaw: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command
OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.24 contain a command injection vulnerability in the system.run shell-wrapper that allows attackers to execute hidden commands by injecting positional argv carriers after inline shell payloads. Attackers can craft misleading ap
- 8.8 High severity
OpenClaw: Incorrect Authorization
OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.3.1 contain an authorization mismatch vulnerability that allows authenticated callers with operator.write scope to invoke owner-only tool surfaces including gateway and cron through agent runs in scoped-token deployments. Attack
- 7.5 High severity
OpenClaw: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.22 fail to consistently enforce configured inbound media byte limits before buffering remote media across multiple channel ingestion paths. Remote attackers can send oversized media payloads to trigger elevated memory usage an
- 9.9 Critical severity
OpenClaw: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.3.1 fail to enforce sandbox inheritance during cross-agent sessions_spawn operations, allowing sandboxed sessions to create child processes under unsandboxed agents. An attacker with a sandboxed session can exploit this to spawn
- 9.8 Critical severity
OpenClaw: Initialization of a Resource with an Insecure Default
OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.21 contain an improper sandbox configuration vulnerability that allows attackers to execute arbitrary code by exploiting renderer-side vulnerabilities without requiring a sandbox escape. Attackers can leverage the disabled OS-
- 9.1 Critical severity
OpenClaw: Authentication Bypass by Spoofing
OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.21 incorrectly apply tokenless Tailscale header authentication to HTTP gateway routes, allowing bypass of token and password requirements. Attackers on trusted networks can exploit this misconfiguration to access HTTP gateway
- 7.0 High severity
OpenClaw: Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.25 contain a time-of-check-time-of-use vulnerability in approval-bound system.run execution where the cwd parameter is validated at approval time but resolved at execution time. Attackers can retarget a symlinked cwd between a
- 8.8 High severity
OpenClaw: Incorrect Authorization
OpenClaw versions 2026.2.22 prior to 2026.2.25 contain a privilege escalation vulnerability allowing unpaired device identities to bypass operator pairing requirements and self-assign elevated operator scopes including operator.admin. Attackers with valid shar
- 9.9 Critical severity
OpenClaw: Missing Authorization
OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.3.12 contain an authorization bypass vulnerability in the WebSocket connect path that allows shared-token or password-authenticated connections to self-declare elevated scopes without server-side binding. Attackers can exploit t
- 7.8 High severity
OpenClaw: Missing Authentication for Critical Functionality
OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.3.1 fail to properly handle authentication bootstrap errors during startup, allowing browser-control routes to remain accessible without authentication. Local processes or loopback-reachable SSRF paths can exploit this to access
- 9.0 Critical severity
OpenClaw: Improper Access Control
OpenClaw before 2026.2.24 contains a sandbox network isolation bypass vulnerability that allows trusted operators to join another container's network namespace. Attackers can configure the docker.network parameter with container:<id> values to reach services i
- 8.2 High severity
OpenClaw: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
OpenClaw gateway plugin versions prior to 2026.2.26 contain a path traversal vulnerability that allows remote attackers to bypass route authentication checks by manipulating /api/channels paths with encoded dot-segment traversal sequences. Attackers can craft
- 7.1 High severity
OpenClaw: Incorrect Authorization
OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.3.2 fail to pass the senderIsOwner flag when processing Discord voice transcripts in agentCommand, causing the flag to default to true. Non-owner voice participants can exploit this omission to access owner-only tools including
- 7.5 High severity
OpenClaw: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command
OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.21 contain an authentication bypass vulnerability in the Control UI when allowInsecureAuth is explicitly enabled and the gateway is exposed over plaintext HTTP, allowing attackers to bypass device identity and pairing verifica
- 7.5 High severity
OpenClaw: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.24 contain a path traversal vulnerability where @-prefixed absolute paths bypass workspace-only file-system boundary validation due to canonicalization mismatch. Attackers can exploit this by crafting @-prefixed paths like @/e
- 7.8 High severity
OpenClaw: Untrusted Search Path
OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.22 contain an arbitrary shell execution vulnerability in shell environment fallback that trusts the unvalidated SHELL path from the host environment. An attacker with local environment access can inject a malicious SHELL varia
- 8.6 High severity
OpenClaw: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.24 contain an improper path validation vulnerability in sandbox media handling that allows absolute paths under the host temporary directory outside the active sandbox root. Attackers can exploit this by providing malicious me
- 7.5 High severity
OpenClaw: Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts
OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.25 contain an authentication hardening gap in browser-origin WebSocket clients that allows attackers to bypass origin checks and auth throttling on loopback deployments. An attacker can trick a user into opening a malicious we
- 7.5 High severity
OpenClaw: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access
OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.22 contain a symlink traversal vulnerability in avatar handling that allows attackers to read arbitrary files outside the configured workspace boundary. Remote attackers can exploit this by requesting avatar resources through
- 8.8 High severity
OpenClaw: Incorrect Authorization
OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.24 contain an approval gating bypass vulnerability in system.run allowlist mode where nested transparent dispatch wrappers can suppress shell-wrapper detection. Attackers can exploit this by chaining multiple dispatch wrappers
- 7.8 High severity
OpenClaw: Untrusted Search Path
OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.22 on macOS contain a path validation bypass vulnerability in the exec-approval allowlist mode that allows local attackers to execute unauthorized binaries by exploiting basename-only allowlist entries. Attackers can execute s
- 7.8 High severity
OpenClaw: Untrusted Search Path
OpenClaw versions 2026.1.21 prior to 2026.2.19 contain a path hijacking vulnerability in tools.exec.safeBins that allows attackers to bypass allowlist checks by controlling process PATH resolution. Attackers who can influence the gateway process PATH or launch
- 8.0 High severity
OpenClaw: Authentication Bypass by Spoofing
OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.26 contain a metadata spoofing vulnerability where reconnect platform and deviceFamily fields are accepted from the client without being bound into the device-auth signature. An attacker with a paired node identity on the trus
- 8.8 High severity
OpenClaw: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access
OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.25 contain a symlink traversal vulnerability in the agents.files.get and agents.files.set methods that allows reading and writing files outside the agent workspace. Attackers can exploit symlinked allowlisted files to access a
- 7.5 High severity
OpenClaw: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.3.2 contain a denial of service vulnerability in webhook handlers for BlueBubbles and Google Chat that parse request bodies before performing authentication and signature validation. Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this by
- 8.8 High severity
OpenClaw: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command
OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.22 contain an allowlist bypass vulnerability in the safe-bin configuration when sort is manually added to tools.exec.safeBins. Attackers can invoke sort with the --compress-program flag to execute arbitrary external programs w
- 7.8 High severity
OpenClaw: Untrusted Search Path
OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.24 contain a policy bypass vulnerability in the safeBins allowlist evaluation that trusts static default directories including writable package-manager paths like /opt/homebrew/bin and /usr/local/bin. An attacker with write ac
- 8.1 High severity
OpenClaw: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.23 contain a path traversal vulnerability in the experimental apply_patch tool that allows attackers with sandbox access to modify files outside the workspace directory by exploiting inconsistent enforcement of workspace-only
- 8.1 High severity
OpenClaw: Incorrect Authorization
OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.25 fail to enforce sender authorization checks for interactive callbacks including block_action, view_submission, and view_closed in shared workspace deployments. Unauthorized workspace members can bypass allowFrom restriction
- 8.2 High severity
OpenClaw: Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.3.2 contain an authentication bypass vulnerability in the /api/channels route classification due to canonicalization depth mismatch between auth-path classification and route-path canonicalization. Attackers can bypass plugin ro
- 7.2 High severity
OpenClaw: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command
OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.22 contain an environment variable injection vulnerability in the system.run function that allows attackers to bypass command allowlist restrictions via SHELLOPTS and PS4 environment variables. An attacker who can invoke syste
- 7.8 High severity
OpenClaw: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command
OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.19 contain a command injection vulnerability in the Lobster extension tool execution that uses Windows shell fallback with shell: true after spawn failures. Attackers can inject shell metacharacters in command arguments to exe
- 7.8 High severity
OpenClaw: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command
OpenClaw versions 2026.2.26 prior to 2026.3.1 on Windows contain a current working directory injection vulnerability in wrapper resolution for .cmd/.bat files that allows attackers to influence execution behavior through cwd manipulation. Remote attackers can
- 9.8 Critical severity
OpenClaw: Incorrect Authorization
OpenClaw versions 2026.2.22 and 2026.2.23 contain an authorization bypass vulnerability in the synology-chat channel plugin where dmPolicy set to allowlist with empty allowedUserIds fails open. Attackers with Synology sender access can bypass authorization che
- 7.1 High severity
OpenClaw: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command
OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.19 tools.exec.safeBins contains an input validation bypass vulnerability that allows attackers to execute unintended filesystem operations through sort output flags or recursive grep flags. Attackers with command execution acc