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GHSA-4564-PVR2-QQ4H

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-02-18 17:39 – Updated: 2026-02-23 22:28
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Summary
OpenClaw: Prevent shell injection in macOS keychain credential write
Details

Summary

On macOS, the Claude CLI keychain credential refresh path constructed a shell command to write the updated JSON blob into Keychain via security add-generic-password -w .... Because OAuth tokens are user-controlled data, this created an OS command injection risk.

The fix avoids invoking a shell by using execFileSync("security", argv) and passing the updated keychain payload as a literal argument.

Affected Packages / Versions

  • Package: openclaw (npm)
  • Platform: macOS only
  • Affected versions: <= 2026.2.13

Fix

  • Patched version: >= 2026.2.14 (next release)
  • Fix PR: #15924
  • Fix commits (merged to main):
  • 9dce3d8bf83f13c067bc3c32291643d2f1f10a06
  • 66d7178f2d6f9d60abad35797f97f3e61389b70c
  • b908388245764fb3586859f44d1dff5372b19caf

Thanks @aether-ai-agent for reporting.

Severity
7.6 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
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  "details": "## Summary\nOn macOS, the Claude CLI keychain credential refresh path constructed a shell command to write the updated JSON blob into Keychain via `security add-generic-password -w ...`. Because OAuth tokens are user-controlled data, this created an OS command injection risk.\n\nThe fix avoids invoking a shell by using `execFileSync(\"security\", argv)` and passing the updated keychain payload as a literal argument.\n\n## Affected Packages / Versions\n- Package: `openclaw` (npm)\n- Platform: macOS only\n- Affected versions: `\u003c= 2026.2.13`\n\n## Fix\n- Patched version: `\u003e= 2026.2.14` (next release)\n- Fix PR: #15924\n- Fix commits (merged to `main`):\n  - `9dce3d8bf83f13c067bc3c32291643d2f1f10a06`\n  - `66d7178f2d6f9d60abad35797f97f3e61389b70c`\n  - `b908388245764fb3586859f44d1dff5372b19caf`\n\nThanks @aether-ai-agent for reporting.",
  "id": "GHSA-4564-pvr2-qq4h",
  "modified": "2026-02-23T22:28:27Z",
  "published": "2026-02-18T17:39:00Z",
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      "type": "CVSS_V3"
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  "summary": "OpenClaw: Prevent shell injection in macOS keychain credential write"
}



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