GHSA-P536-VVPP-9MC8
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-02-19 19:40 – Updated: 2026-02-19 19:40Summary
The web_fetch tool could be used to crash the OpenClaw Gateway process (OOM / resource exhaustion) by fetching and attempting to parse attacker-controlled web pages with oversized response bodies or pathological HTML nesting.
Affected Packages / Versions
- Package:
openclaw(npm) - Affected versions:
<= 2026.2.14 - Fixed versions:
>= 2026.2.15
Impact
An attacker can social-engineer a user (or any automation that uses web_fetch) into fetching a malicious URL that returns extremely large or deeply nested HTML. The Gateway may exhaust memory or become unresponsive, causing a denial of service.
Fix
The Gateway now caps the downloaded response body size before any HTML parsing and adds additional guards to avoid running Readability/DOM parsing on pathological HTML.
Fix Commit(s)
- 166cf6a3e04c7df42bea70a7ad5ce2b9df46d147
Release Process Note
This advisory is prepared for the next npm release. Once openclaw@2026.2.15 is published, publish this advisory without further edits.
Thanks @xuemian168 for reporting.
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"details": "### Summary\nThe `web_fetch` tool could be used to crash the OpenClaw Gateway process (OOM / resource exhaustion) by fetching and attempting to parse attacker-controlled web pages with oversized response bodies or pathological HTML nesting.\n\n### Affected Packages / Versions\n- Package: `openclaw` (npm)\n- Affected versions: `\u003c= 2026.2.14`\n- Fixed versions: `\u003e= 2026.2.15`\n\n### Impact\nAn attacker can social-engineer a user (or any automation that uses `web_fetch`) into fetching a malicious URL that returns extremely large or deeply nested HTML. The Gateway may exhaust memory or become unresponsive, causing a denial of service.\n\n### Fix\nThe Gateway now caps the downloaded response body size before any HTML parsing and adds additional guards to avoid running Readability/DOM parsing on pathological HTML.\n\n### Fix Commit(s)\n- 166cf6a3e04c7df42bea70a7ad5ce2b9df46d147\n\n### Release Process Note\nThis advisory is prepared for the next npm release. Once `openclaw@2026.2.15` is published, publish this advisory without further edits.\n\nThanks @xuemian168 for reporting.",
"id": "GHSA-p536-vvpp-9mc8",
"modified": "2026-02-19T19:40:56Z",
"published": "2026-02-19T19:40:56Z",
"references": [
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"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/security/advisories/GHSA-p536-vvpp-9mc8"
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"url": "https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/166cf6a3e04c7df42bea70a7ad5ce2b9df46d147"
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"summary": "OpenClaw has a Web Fetch DoS via unbounded response parsing"
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Sightings
| Author | Source | Type | Date |
|---|
Nomenclature
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- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.