OpenClaw before 2026.4.20 contains a guard bypass vulnerability in the agent-facing gateway config.patch and config.apply endpoints that fails to protect operator-trusted settings including sandbox policy, plugin enablement, gateway auth/TLS, hook routing, MCP server configuration, SSRF policy, and filesystem hardening. A prompt-injected model with access to the owner-only gateway tool can persist unauthorized changes to protected operator settings.
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"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-862"
],
"cna_assigner": "VulnCheck"
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"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:openclaw:openclaw:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*",
"source": [
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"REFERENCES"
],
"extracted_events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "2026.4.20"
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