CVE-2026-53847: Openclaw

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

OpenClaw before 2026.5.6 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Active Memory write scope that allows Gateway operators with operator.write access to modify global configuration without requiring operator.admin privileges. Attackers with operator.write access can exploit insufficient scope validation to apply unauthorized configuration changes beyond the intended write scope.

Affected products

• Openclaw Openclaw: before 2026.5.6 (fixed in 2026.5.6); version 2026.5.6 only

Published 2026-06-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.