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CVE-2026-42429

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CVE-2026-42429

Published: Apr 28, 2026

Modified: May 26, 2026

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

7.1

HIGH

Description

OpenClaw before 2026.4.8 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability in the gateway plugin HTTP authentication mechanism that escalates identity-bearing operator.read requests to runtime operator.write permissions. Attackers can exploit this by sending read-scoped requests through the gateway auth route to gain unauthorized write access to runtime operations.

VendorProductVersions

OpenClaw

OpenClaw

affected
0 - < 2026.4.8
unaffected
2026.4.8

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

High

Availability

None

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