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GHSA-M5J2-R859-R5CV

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-05-11 18:31 – Updated: 2026-05-18 15:29

Withdrawn 2026-05-18

Summary

Duplicate Advisory: OpenClaw: Isolated cron awareness events were recorded as trusted system events

Details

Duplicate Advisory

This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-57r2-h2wj-g887. This link is maintained to preserve external references.

Original Description

OpenClaw before 2026.4.20 fails to properly preserve untrusted labels for isolated cron awareness events, allowing webhook-triggered cron agent output to be recorded as trusted system events. Attackers can exploit this trust-labeling issue to strengthen prompt-injection attacks by rendering untrusted events as trusted System events.

Severity

5.3 (Medium)


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

6.3 (Medium)


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

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      "url": "https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/f61896b03cc7031f51106a04566831f4ac2a0bd7"
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CVE-2026-44999 (GCVE-0-2026-44999)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-11 16:46 – Updated: 2026-05-12 13:53 X_Open Source

Title

OpenClaw < 2026.4.20 - Improper Trust Labeling in Isolated Cron Awareness Events

Summary

Severity

6.3 (Medium)


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

5.3 (Medium)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-05-12 13:52 UTC

CWE

CWE-345 - Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity

Assigner

VulnCheck mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/security/adv…	vendor-advisory
https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/f6189…	patch
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/openclaw-imp…	third-party-advisory

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
OpenClaw	OpenClaw	Affected: 0 , < 2026.4.20 (semver) Unaffected: 2026.4.20 (semver) cpe:2.3:a:openclaw:openclaw::::::node.js::*

Date Public

2026-04-21 00:00

Credits

zsx (@zsxsoft) KeenSecurityLab qclawer

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