CVE 7.1 HIGH

OpenClaw < 2026.3.24 - Privilege Escalation via chat.send to Allowlist Persistence_CVE-2026-35621

7.1 / 10
HIGH
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Description

OpenClaw before 2026.3.24 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability where the /allowlist command fails to re-validate gateway client scopes for internal callers, allowing operator.write-scoped clients to mutate channel authorization policy. Attackers can exploit chat.send to build an internal command-authorized context and persist channel allowFrom and groupAllowFrom policy changes reserved for operator.admin scope.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-35621
Source VulnCheck
Published Apr 10, 2026 at 16:03
Modified Apr 10, 2026 at 18:21

Affected Product

Vendor OpenClaw
Product OpenClaw
Affected Versions OpenClaw OpenClaw 0

CWE Classification

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