CVE-2026-53836: Openclaw

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

OpenClaw before 2026.5.12 contains an allowlist bypass vulnerability in PowerShell encoded-command handling that allows attackers to execute encoded commands using abbreviated flag aliases not recognized by the allowlist parser. Remote authenticated operators can bypass execution allowlist checks by using unrecognized encoded-command alias forms to execute arbitrary PowerShell content.

Affected products

• Openclaw Openclaw: before 2026.5.12 (fixed in 2026.5.12)

Published 2026-06-12. Last modified 2026-07-23.