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SCA: security update for openclaw (GHSA-j27p-hq53-9wgc)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 437782

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.14 contain a denial of service vulnerability in the fetchWithGuard
 function that allocates entire response payloads in memory before enforcing maxBytes limits. Remote
 attackers can trigger memory exhaustion by serving oversized responses without content-length headers to
 cause availability loss. (CVE-2026-29609)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j27p-hq53-9wgc

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 437782

Version: Revision 1.8

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 2/18/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.45

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-29609

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 6.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/18/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/18/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-29609

cwe: CWE-400