CVE-2026-44998: Openclaw

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

OpenClaw before 2026.4.20 contains a tool policy bypass vulnerability allowing bundled MCP and LSP tools to circumvent configured tool restrictions. Attackers with local agent access can append restricted tools to the effective tool set after policy filtering, bypassing profile policies, allow/deny lists, owner-only restrictions, sandbox policies, and subagent policies.

Affected products

• Openclaw Openclaw: before 2026.4.20 (fixed in 2026.4.20)

Published 2026-05-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.