GHSA-5h3f-885m-v22w

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Source
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5h3f-885m-v22w
Import Source
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/04/GHSA-5h3f-885m-v22w/GHSA-5h3f-885m-v22w.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-5h3f-885m-v22w
Aliases
  • CVE-2026-42421
Downstream
Published
2026-04-09T17:36:02Z
Modified
2026-04-28T18:27:44Z
Severity
  • 5.9 (Medium) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
OpenClaw: Existing WS sessions survive shared gateway token rotation
Details

Impact

Existing WS sessions survive shared gateway token rotation.

Rotating the shared gateway token did not disconnect existing shared-token WebSocket sessions.

OpenClaw is a user-controlled local assistant. This advisory is scoped to the OpenClaw trust model and does not assume a multi-tenant service boundary.

Affected Packages / Versions

  • Package: openclaw (npm)
  • Affected versions: <= 2026.4.1
  • Patched versions: 2026.4.8

Fix

The issue was fixed on main and is available in the patched npm version listed above. The verified fixed tree is commit d7c3210cd6f5fdfdc1beff4c9541673e814354d5.

Verification

The fix was re-checked against main before publication, including targeted regression tests for the affected security boundary.

Credits

Thanks @kexinoh of Tencent zhuque Lab (https://github.com/Tencent/AI-Infra-Guard) for reporting.

Database specific 
{
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "severity": "MODERATE",
    "github_reviewed_at": "2026-04-09T17:36:02Z",
    "nvd_published_at": null,
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-613"
    ]
}
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
2026.4.8

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/04/GHSA-5h3f-885m-v22w/GHSA-5h3f-885m-v22w.json"