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🛡️ GHSA-w9f5-8q83-qwpx — openclaw (CVE-2026-41333)

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-799 OSV
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CVSS Score
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Description

Duplicate Advisory: OpenClaw: Fake DeviceToken Bypasses Shared Auth Rate Limiting

Duplicate Advisory

This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-6p8r-6m93-557f. This link is maintained to preserve external references.

Original Description

OpenClaw before 2026.3.31 contains an authentication rate limiting bypass vulnerability that allows attackers to circumvent shared authentication protections using fake device tokens. Attackers can exploit the mixed WebSocket authentication flow to bypass rate limiting controls and conduct brute force attacks against weak shared passwords.

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 low, integrity none, availability none.

Weakness class

GHSA-w9f5-8q83-qwpx is classified as CWE-799: Improper Control of Interaction Frequency. The product does not properly limit the number or frequency of interactions that it has with an actor, such as the number of incoming requests.

Affected software

GHSA-w9f5-8q83-qwpx is recorded against 1 package.

  • openclaw

Timeline and source

Published on 24 April 2026 and last revised on 5 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 Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/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-799
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-04-24
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-05-05
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
openclaw — —

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