CVE-2026-41378: Openclaw

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

OpenClaw before 2026.3.31 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability allowing paired nodes with role=node to dispatch node.event agent requests with unrestricted gateway-side tool access. Attackers with trusted paired node credentials can escalate privileges by leveraging unrestricted agent.request dispatch to achieve remote code execution on the gateway.

Affected products

• Openclaw Openclaw: before 2026.3.31 (fixed in 2026.3.31)

Published 2026-04-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.