🛡️ CVE-2026-42421 — openclaw

🟡 CVSS 5.4 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-613 OSV
5.4
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

OpenClaw: Existing WS sessions survive shared gateway token rotation

Impact

Existing WS sessions survive shared gateway token rotation.

Rotating the shared gateway token did not disconnect existing shared-token WebSocket sessions.

OpenClaw is a user-controlled local assistant. This advisory is scoped to the OpenClaw trust model and does not assume a multi-tenant service boundary.

Affected Packages / Versions

  • Package: openclaw (npm)
  • Affected versions: <= 2026.4.1
  • Patched versions: 2026.4.8

Fix

The issue was fixed on main and is available in the patched npm version listed above. The verified fixed tree is commit d7c3210cd6f5fdfdc1beff4c9541673e814354d5.

Verification

The fix was re-checked against main before publication, including targeted regression tests for the affected security boundary.

Credits

Thanks @kexinoh of Tencent zhuque Lab (https://github.com/Tencent/AI-Infra-Guard) for reporting.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

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

Weakness class

CVE-2026-42421 is classified as CWE-613: Insufficient Session Expiration. Sessions stay valid longer than they should, so an old identifier still grants access.

Affected software

CVE-2026-42421 is recorded against 1 package.

  • openclaw

Timeline and source

Published on 9 April 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)
github.com (Package)

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.4
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE CWE-613
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-04-09
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
openclaw

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