CVE-2026-33579: Openclaw

Critical severity, CVSS 9.9. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

OpenClaw before 2026.3.28 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability in the /pair approve command path that fails to forward caller scopes into the core approval check. A caller with pairing privileges but without admin privileges can approve pending device requests asking for broader scopes including admin access by exploiting the missing scope validation in extensions/device-pair/index.ts and src/infra/device-pairing.ts.

Affected products

• Openclaw Openclaw: before 2026.3.28 (fixed in 2026.3.28)

Published 2026-03-31. Last modified 2026-07-24.