CVE-2026-27522: Openclaw

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.24 contain a local media root bypass vulnerability in sendAttachment and setGroupIcon message actions when sandboxRoot is unset. Attackers can hydrate media from local absolute paths to read arbitrary host files accessible by the runtime user.

Affected products

• Openclaw Openclaw: before 2026.2.24 (fixed in 2026.2.24)

Published 2026-03-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.