GHSA-xvhf-x56f-2hpp

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Source
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xvhf-x56f-2hpp
Import Source
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/02/GHSA-xvhf-x56f-2hpp/GHSA-xvhf-x56f-2hpp.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-xvhf-x56f-2hpp
Aliases
Published
2026-02-18T00:50:47Z
Modified
2026-03-06T01:16:27.386257Z
Severity
  • 5.7 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
  • 8.6 (High) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
OpenClaw exec approvals: safeBins could bypass stdin-only constraints via shell expansion
Details

Summary

OpenClaw's exec-approvals allowlist supports a small set of "safe bins" intended to be stdin-only (no positional file arguments) when running tools.exec.host=gateway|node with security=allowlist.

In affected configurations, the allowlist validation checked pre-expansion argv tokens, but execution used a real shell (sh -c) which expands globs and environment variables. This allowed safe bins like head, tail, or grep to read arbitrary local files via tokens such as * or $HOME/... without triggering approvals.

This issue is configuration-dependent and is not exercised by default settings (default tools.exec.host is sandbox).

Affected Packages / Versions

  • Package: openclaw (npm)
  • Affected: <= 2026.2.13
  • Patched: >= 2026.2.14 (planned; publish the advisory after the npm release is out)

Impact

An authorized but untrusted caller (or prompt-injection) could cause the gateway/node process to disclose files readable by that process when host execution is enabled in allowlist mode.

Fix

Safe-bins executions now force argv tokens to be treated as literal text at execution time (single-quoted), preventing globbing and $VARS expansion from turning "safe" tokens into file paths.

Fix Commit(s)

  • 77b89719d5b7e271f48b6f49e334a8b991468c3b

Release Process Note

patched_versions is pre-set for the next planned release (>= 2026.2.14) so publishing is a single click once that npm version is available.

Thanks @christos-eth for reporting.

Database specific 
{
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2026-02-18T00:50:47Z",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-78"
    ],
    "severity": "HIGH",
    "nvd_published_at": "2026-03-05T22:16:19Z"
}
References

Affected packages

npm / openclaw

Package

Name
openclaw
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Purl
pkg:npm/openclaw

Affected ranges

Type
SEMVER
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2026.2.14

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/02/GHSA-xvhf-x56f-2hpp/GHSA-xvhf-x56f-2hpp.json"