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🛡️ CVE-2026-22174 — openclaw

🟡 CVSS 6.8 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-290 OSV
6.8
CVSS Score
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Description

OpenClaw Loopback CDP probe can leak Gateway token to local listener

Summary

A local process can capture the OpenClaw Gateway auth token from Chrome CDP probe traffic on loopback.

Details

Affected versions inject x-openclaw-relay-token for loopback CDP URLs, and CDP reachability probes send that header to /json/version.

If an attacker controls the probed loopback port, they can read that token and reuse it as Gateway bearer auth.

Relevant code paths (pre-fix):

  • src/browser/extension-relay.ts (getChromeExtensionRelayAuthHeaders)
  • src/browser/cdp.helpers.ts (getHeadersWithAuth)
  • src/browser/chrome.ts (fetchChromeVersion)

Affected Packages / Versions

  • Package: openclaw (npm)
  • Latest published (at triage): 2026.2.21-2
  • Vulnerable: <= 2026.2.21-2
  • Patched: >= 2026.2.22

Deployment Model Applicability

This does not change OpenClaw’s documented security model for standard single-owner installs (you own the machine/VPS and trust local processes under that OS account boundary).

Risk is for non-standard shared-user/shared-host installs where an untrusted local user/process can race/bind the loopback relay port.

Impact

  • Local credential disclosure.
  • Follow-on impact depends on local deployment and enabled Gateway capabilities.

Fix Commit(s)

  • afa22acc4a09fdf32be8a167ae216bee85c30dad

Release Process Note

Patched version is set to >= 2026.2.22 for the published release.

OpenClaw thanks @tdjackey for reporting.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity low, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

  • Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
  • Attack complexity: High — the attacker first has to win a race, learn a secret or otherwise prepare the target.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-22174 is classified as CWE-290: Authentication Bypass by Spoofing. Identity is inferred from something an attacker can forge, such as a header or address.

Affected software

CVE-2026-22174 is recorded against 1 package.

  • openclaw

Timeline and source

Published on 3 March 2026 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from OSV.

References

github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
www.vulncheck.com (Web)

Other advisories for this package

openclaw has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-290: Authentication Bypass by Spoofing) in other software:

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-290
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-03-03
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
openclaw — —

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