CVE-2026-42429: Openclaw

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

OpenClaw before 2026.4.8 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability in the gateway plugin HTTP authentication mechanism that escalates identity-bearing operator.read requests to runtime operator.write permissions. Attackers can exploit this by sending read-scoped requests through the gateway auth route to gain unauthorized write access to runtime operations.

Affected products

• Openclaw Openclaw: before 2026.4.8 (fixed in 2026.4.8)

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