GHSA-xh72-v6v9-mwhc is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.8) CWE-1188 vulnerability in openclaw. O3 Security confirms whether GHSA-xh72-v6v9-mwhc is actually reachable in your code before you act, and blocks exploitation at runtime until you patch.
OpenClaw: Feishu webhook and card-action validation now fail closed
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation observed yet
- CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
- 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 GHSA-xh72-v6v9-mwhc.
Real-World Exposure
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.
openclawnpmDescription
Summary
Feishu webhook mode accepted missing encryptKey configuration as valid and blank card-action callback tokens as usable lifecycle tokens. Together, those fail-open paths could allow unauthenticated webhook or card-action traffic to reach command dispatch in affected deployments.
Impact
A deployment using Feishu webhook mode without a configured encryptKey, or handling malformed card-action callbacks with blank callback tokens, could fail open instead of rejecting the request. Severity remains critical because affected webhook deployments expose a network-triggered path into OpenClaw command handling without the expected Feishu signature or replay protection.
Affected versions
- Affected:
< 2026.4.15 - Patched:
2026.4.15
Fix
OpenClaw 2026.4.15 makes Feishu webhook and card-action validation fail closed. Webhook mode now refuses to start without an encryptKey, missing signing configuration returns invalid instead of valid, invalid signatures return 401, and blank card-action callback tokens are rejected before dispatch.
Verified in v2026.4.15:
extensions/feishu/src/monitor.transport.tsreturns invalid whenencryptKeyis missing, refuses webhook mode withoutencryptKey, and rejects invalid signatures before JSON handling.extensions/feishu/src/card-action.tsrejects blank callback tokens in the card-action lifecycle guard.extensions/feishu/src/monitor.webhook-security.test.tscovers missing-encryptKeystartup and transport rejection.extensions/feishu/src/monitor.card-action.lifecycle.test.tscovers malformed blank-token card actions being dropped before handler dispatch.
Fix commit included in v2026.4.15 and absent from v2026.4.14:
c8003f1b33ed2924be5f62131bd28742c5a41aaevia PR #66707
Thanks to @dhyabi2 for reporting this issue.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📦npm | openclaw | all versions | 2026.4.15 |
Detection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for openclaw. O3's reachability analysis confirms whether the vulnerable code path is actually invoked in your application, so you act on real exposure instead of every transitive match.
Fix
Update openclaw to 2026.4.15 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms GHSA-xh72-v6v9-mwhc is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.
How O3 protects you
O3 pinpoints whether GHSA-xh72-v6v9-mwhc is reachable in your code and exactly where to fix it, then blocks exploitation in production at runtime until the patched version is deployed.
Tailored to GHSA-xh72-v6v9-mwhc. Runtime protection reduces exposure until a permanent patch is applied and verified — it complements patching, it doesn't replace it.
Frequently Asked Questions
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