GHSA-2mc2-g238-722j

Source

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2mc2-g238-722j

Import Source

https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/03/GHSA-2mc2-g238-722j/GHSA-2mc2-g238-722j.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-2mc2-g238-722j

Downstream

MINI-p69j-3qpx-cvq2

Published

2026-03-03T21:35:21Z

Modified

2026-03-04T15:10:06.412827Z

Severity

5.3 (Medium) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CVSS Calculator

Summary

OpenClaw affected by iMessage remote attachment SCP hardening (strict host-key checks and remoteHost validation)

Details

Summary

Remote iMessage attachment fetches used SCP with trust-on-first-use host-key behavior and accepted unvalidated remote host tokens.

Before the fix: - SCP used StrictHostKeyChecking=accept-new in the remote attachment path. - channels.imessage.remoteHost was not validated as a strict SSH host token.

Impact

In remote iMessage deployments that use SCP attachment fetching, a first-connection MITM/DNS-poisoning scenario could cause the wrong host key to be trusted. Unsafe remote host token values could also alter SCP argument semantics.

Affected Packages / Versions

Package: openclaw (npm)
Latest published npm version currently affected: 2026.2.17
Vulnerable range (structured field): <= 2026.2.17
Patched version (pre-set for next release): >= 2026.2.19

Fix

The fix hardens remote attachment SSH/SCP handling by: - requiring StrictHostKeyChecking=yes for SCP and SSH tunnel paths, - adding strict remoteHost normalization/validation, - adding -- argument barrier for SCP remote source parsing, - validating channels.imessage.remoteHost in config schema, - rejecting unsafe auto-detected host tokens at runtime.

Fix Commit(s)

Pushed to main: 49d0def6d1e88f002026b1d2a35aa615d48a751a

OpenClaw thanks @allsmog for reporting.

Database specific

{
    "nvd_published_at": null,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2026-03-03T21:35:21Z",
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-295",
        "CWE-78"
    ],
    "severity": "MODERATE"
}

References

Affected packages

npm / openclaw

Package

Name: openclaw; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:npm/openclaw

Affected ranges

Type: SEMVER
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

2026.2.19

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/03/GHSA-2mc2-g238-722j/GHSA-2mc2-g238-722j.json"

last_known_affected_version_range

"<= 2026.2.17"