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CVE-2026-28394 (GCVE-0-2026-28394)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-05 21:59 – Updated: 2026-03-11 13:35

Title

OpenClaw < 2026.2.15 - Denial of Service via Unbounded Response Parsing in web_fetch Tool

Summary

OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.15 contain a denial of service vulnerability in the web_fetch tool that allows attackers to crash the Gateway process through memory exhaustion by parsing oversized or deeply nested HTML responses. Remote attackers can social-engineer users into fetching malicious URLs with pathological HTML structures to exhaust server memory and cause service unavailability.

Severity

6.9 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

6.5 (Medium)


                        
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SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-03-11 13:34 UTC

CWE

CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Assigner

VulnCheck mitre root Scorecard

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/security/adv…	vendor-advisory
https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/166cf…	patch
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/openclaw-den…	third-party-advisory

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE status
OpenClaw	OpenClaw	Affected: 0 , < 2026.2.15 (custom) cpe:2.3:a:openclaw:openclaw::::::node.js::*

Date Public

2026-02-18 00:00

Credits

Vincent Koc (@vincentkoc)

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BREW-OPENCLAW-CLI-CVE-20… (GHSA-P536-VVPP-9MC8)

Vulnerability from osv_homebrew – Published: 2026-08-13 17:21 – Updated: 2026-10-04 10:42 – Source website

Summary

OpenClaw has a Web Fetch DoS via unbounded response parsing

Details

Summary

The web_fetch tool could be used to crash the OpenClaw Gateway process (OOM / resource exhaustion) by fetching and attempting to parse attacker-controlled web pages with oversized response bodies or pathological HTML nesting.

Affected Packages / Versions

Package: openclaw (npm)
Affected versions: <= 2026.2.14
Fixed versions: >= 2026.2.15

Impact

An attacker can social-engineer a user (or any automation that uses web_fetch) into fetching a malicious URL that returns extremely large or deeply nested HTML. The Gateway may exhaust memory or become unresponsive, causing a denial of service.

Fix

The Gateway now caps the downloaded response body size before any HTML parsing and adds additional guards to avoid running Readability/DOM parsing on pathological HTML.

Fix Commit(s)

166cf6a3e04c7df42bea70a7ad5ce2b9df46d147

Release Process Note

This advisory is prepared for the next npm release. Once openclaw@2026.2.15 is published, publish this advisory without further edits.

Thanks @xuemian168 for reporting.

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

URL

Type

	https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/security/adv…	WEB
	https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/166cf…	WEB
	https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw	PACKAGE
	https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/releases/tag…	WEB

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    "source": "matched",
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      }
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  },
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  "id": "BREW-openclaw-cli-CVE-2026-28394",
  "modified": "2026-10-04T10:42:18Z",
  "published": "2026-08-13T17:21:32Z",
  "references": [
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      "url": "https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/security/advisories/GHSA-p536-vvpp-9mc8"
    },
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      "type": "WEB",
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    "CVE-2026-28394"
  ]
}

CNVD-2026-13554

Vulnerability from cnvd - Published: 2026-03-12

Title

OpenClaw拒绝服务漏洞（CNVD-2026-13554）

Description

OpenClaw是一款用于网络数据获取的网关工具。 OpenClaw存在拒绝服务漏洞。攻击者可利用该漏洞通过解析超大或深度嵌套HTML响应耗尽内存，诱使用户访问恶意URL导致网关进程崩溃。

Severity

高

Patch Name

OpenClaw拒绝服务漏洞（CNVD-2026-13554）的补丁

Patch Description

OpenClaw是一款用于网络数据获取的网关工具。 OpenClaw存在拒绝服务漏洞。攻击者可利用该漏洞通过解析超大或深度嵌套HTML响应耗尽内存，诱使用户访问恶意URL导致网关进程崩溃。目前，供应商发布了安全公告及相关补丁信息，修复了此漏洞。

Formal description

目前厂商已发布升级补丁以修复漏洞。补丁获取链接： https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/security/advisories/GHSA-p536-vvpp-9mc8

Reference

https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/166cf6a3e04c7df42bea70a7ad5ce2b9df46d147 https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/security/advisories/GHSA-p536-vvpp-9mc8 https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/openclaw-denial-of-service-via-unbounded-response-parsing-in-web-fetch-tool

Impacted products

Name
OpenClaw OpenClaw <2026.2.15

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FKIE_CVE-2026-28394

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-03-05 22:16 - Updated: 2026-06-17 10:28

Severity

6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

References

URL	Tags
disclosure@vulncheck.com	https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/166cf6a3e04c7df42bea70a7ad5ce2b9df46d147	Patch
disclosure@vulncheck.com	https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/security/advisories/GHSA-p536-vvpp-9mc8	Vendor Advisory
disclosure@vulncheck.com	https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/openclaw-denial-of-service-via-unbounded-response-parsing-in-web-fetch-tool	Third Party Advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	openclaw	openclaw	*

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    }
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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T10:28:32.523",
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GHSA-P536-VVPP-9MC8

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-02-19 19:40 – Updated: 2026-03-05 21:42

Summary

OpenClaw has a Web Fetch DoS via unbounded response parsing

Details

Summary

Affected Packages / Versions

Package: openclaw (npm)
Affected versions: <= 2026.2.14
Fixed versions: >= 2026.2.15

Impact

Fix

The Gateway now caps the downloaded response body size before any HTML parsing and adds additional guards to avoid running Readability/DOM parsing on pathological HTML.

Fix Commit(s)

166cf6a3e04c7df42bea70a7ad5ce2b9df46d147

Release Process Note

This advisory is prepared for the next npm release. Once openclaw@2026.2.15 is published, publish this advisory without further edits.

Thanks @xuemian168 for reporting.

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "npm",
        "name": "openclaw"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
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      ]
    }
  ],
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    "CVE-2026-28394"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-400"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2026-02-19T19:40:56Z",
    "nvd_published_at": null,
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
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  "id": "GHSA-p536-vvpp-9mc8",
  "modified": "2026-03-05T21:42:20Z",
  "published": "2026-02-19T19:40:56Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/security/advisories/GHSA-p536-vvpp-9mc8"
    },
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      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/166cf6a3e04c7df42bea70a7ad5ce2b9df46d147"
    },
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      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
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      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "OpenClaw has a Web Fetch DoS via unbounded response parsing"
}

Sightings

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Nomenclature

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Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base model, served locally by ML-Gateway. They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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CVE-2026-28394 (GCVE-0-2026-28394)

BREW-OPENCLAW-CLI-CVE-20… (GHSA-P536-VVPP-9MC8)

Summary

Affected Packages / Versions

Impact

Fix

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CNVD-2026-13554

FKIE_CVE-2026-28394

GHSA-P536-VVPP-9MC8

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Fix

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