PT-2026-31956 · Openclaw · Openclaw

Peng Zhou · Published 2026-04-10 · Updated 2026-04-10 · CVE-2026-35621

NVD

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

OpenClaw before 2026.3.24 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability where the /allowlist command fails to re-validate gateway client scopes for internal callers, allowing operator.write-scoped clients to mutate channel authorization policy. Attackers can exploit chat.send to build an internal command-authorized context and persist channel allowFrom and groupAllowFrom policy changes reserved for operator.admin scope.

Fix

Missing Authorization

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-862

Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-35621

Affected Products

Openclaw

References · 3

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-35621 · Security Note
• https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/security/advisories/GHSA-94pw-c6m8-p9p9 · Note
• https://vulncheck.com/advisories/openclaw-privilege-escalation-via-chat-send-to-allowlist-persistence · Note