CVSS 4.0
6.0 mediumCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NCVE-2026-42429
Medium (6.0) in openclaw openclaw. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in openclaw 2026.4.8.
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.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
7.1 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 15% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-863
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- openclaw:openclaw
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-4f8g-77mw-3rxc | npm | openclaw | <2026.4.8 | 2026.4.8 |