CVE-2026-45001

medium

Description

OpenClaw before 2026.4.20 contains a guard bypass vulnerability in the agent-facing gateway config.patch and config.apply endpoints that fails to protect operator-trusted settings including sandbox policy, plugin enablement, gateway auth/TLS, hook routing, MCP server configuration, SSRF policy, and filesystem hardening. A prompt-injected model with access to the owner-only gateway tool can persist unauthorized changes to protected operator settings.

References

Advisories
More

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/openclaw-gateway-config-mutation-guard-bypass-via-agent-tool-access

https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/security/advisories/GHSA-7jm2-g593-4qrc

https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/fe30b31a97a917ecc6e92f6c85378b6b20352422

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-05-11

Updated: 2026-05-13

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:C/A:N

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N

Severity: High

CVSS v4

Base Score: 6

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00025