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CVE-2026-25593 — openclaw

HIGH

CVE-2026-25593 is a high-severity (CVSS 8.4) OS Command Injection vulnerability in openclaw. A fix is available for openclaw — see the affected versions and patch details below.

OpenClaw Affected by Unauthenticated Local RCE via WebSocket config.apply

Also known asGHSA-g55j-c2v4-pjcg
Published
Updated
Affected
1 pkg
Patched
1 / 1
Exploits
None indexed
Exploitation data as of Nov 6, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, FIRST.org (EPSS)

Exploitation Status

No confirmed exploitation observed yet

  • A successful exploit gives an attacker total control of the affected component, not partial access.
  • CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.

Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for CVE-2026-25593.

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
0.7%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk-0.01%
Lower risk than most CVEs54th percentile — riskier than 54% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
0.00%0.46%0.92%1.39%0.0%0.7%May 26Sep 26Nov 26

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.

How urgent is this, really

Where this sits among everything scored

Real-World Exposure

1 pkg affected

How broadly this vulnerability is actually deployed: weekly install volume shows current usage, and reverse-dependency count shows how many other packages break if it stays unpatched.

133other npm packages depend on this — each one inherits the vulnerability until it's patched upstream
openclawnpm
2.5Mdownloads / week

Description

Summary

An unauthenticated local client could use the Gateway WebSocket API to write config via config.apply and set unsafe cliPath values that were later used for command discovery, enabling command injection as the gateway user.

Impact

A local process on the same machine could execute arbitrary commands as the gateway process user.

Details

  • config.apply accepted raw JSON and wrote it to disk after schema validation.
  • cliPath values were not constrained to safe executable names/paths.
  • Command discovery used a shell invocation when resolving executables.

Mitigation

Upgrade to a patched release. If projects cannot upgrade immediately, set gateway.auth and avoid custom cliPath values.

Affected Packages

1 total 1 fixed
EcosystemPackageVulnerable rangeFix
📦npmopenclawall versions2026.1.20npm install openclaw@2026.1.20

Affected Products

1 product · 1 configurations
Application
openclawopenclaw
< 2026.1.20
range

Detection & mitigation playbook

Open-source dependency

  1. Detect

    Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for openclaw, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.

  2. Fix

    Update openclaw to 2026.1.20 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2026-25593 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.

  3. Workarounds

    Stop passing untrusted input into the interpreter or shell: call the affected binary with an argument array rather than a composed command string, reject anything outside a strict allowlist of expected values, and run the component under an account that cannot reach beyond the work it legitimately does.

Frequently Asked Questions

### Summary An unauthenticated local client could use the Gateway WebSocket API to write config via `config.apply` and set unsafe `cliPath` values that were later used for command discovery, enabling command injection as the gateway user. ### Impact A local process on the same machine could execute arbitrary commands as the gateway process user. ### Details - `config.apply` accepted raw JSON and wrote it to disk after schema validation. - `cliPath` values were not constrained to safe executable names/paths. - Command discovery used a shell invocation when resolving executables. ### Mitig
O3 Security · Impact-Aware SCA

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CVE-2026-25593: openclaw — Fixed in 2026.1.20