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🛡️ GHSA-m8wm-r5vq-qjpg — openclaw (CVE-2026-43585)

🔴 CVSS 9.5 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-672 OSV
9.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Duplicate Advisory: OpenClaw: Gateway HTTP endpoints re-resolve bearer auth after SecretRef rotation

Duplicate Advisory

This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-xmxx-7p24-h892. This link is maintained to preserve external references.

Original Description

OpenClaw before 2026.4.15 captures resolved bearer-auth configuration at startup, allowing revoked tokens to remain valid after SecretRef rotation. Gateway HTTP and WebSocket handlers fail to re-resolve authentication per-request, enabling attackers to use rotated-out bearer tokens for unauthorized gateway access.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, 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 high, availability high.

Weakness class

GHSA-m8wm-r5vq-qjpg is classified as CWE-672: Operation on a Resource after Expiration or Release. A resource is used after it has been released or has expired.

Affected software

GHSA-m8wm-r5vq-qjpg is recorded against 1 package.

  • openclaw

Timeline and source

Published on 6 May 2026 and last revised on 11 May 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

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

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
CWE CWE-672
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-05-06
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-05-11
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
openclaw — —

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