OpenClaw before 2026.4.8 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability in the gateway plugin HTTP authentication mechanism that escalates identity-bearing operator.read requests to runtime operator.write permissions. Attackers can exploit this by sending read-scoped requests through the gateway auth route to gain unauthorized write access to runtime operations.
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"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/42xxx/CVE-2026-42429.json",
"cna_assigner": "VulnCheck",
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-863"
]
}{
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:openclaw:openclaw:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*",
"source": [
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"REFERENCES"
],
"extracted_events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "2026.4.8"
}
]
}