PT-2026-26499 · Npm · Openclaw
Published
2026-03-09
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Updated
2026-03-09
CVSS v3.1
5.0
Medium
| Vector | AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |
OpenClaw's
system.run allowlist analysis did not honor POSIX shell comment semantics when deriving allow-always persistence entries.A caller in
security=allowlist mode who received an allow-always decision could submit a shell command whose tail was commented out at runtime, for example by using an unquoted # before a chained payload. The runtime shell would execute only the pre-comment portion, but allowlist persistence could still analyze and store the non-executed tail as a trusted follow-up command.Latest published npm version:
2026.3.2Fixed on
main on March 7, 2026 in 939b18475d734ed75173f59507e3ebbdfe1992b7 by teaching shell tokenization and chain/pipeline analysis to stop at unquoted shell comments, so allow-always persistence now tracks only commands that the shell can actually execute. Normal real chained commands and quoted # literals continue to work.Affected Packages / Versions
- Package:
openclaw(npm) - Affected versions:
<= 2026.3.2 - Patched version:
>= 2026.3.7
Fix Commit(s)
939b18475d734ed75173f59507e3ebbdfe1992b7
Release Process Note
npm
2026.3.7 was published on March 8, 2026. This advisory is fixed in the released package.Thanks @tdjackey for reporting.
Fix
Incorrect Authorization
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Related Identifiers
Affected Products
Openclaw