Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting openclaw package, versions <2026.2.19


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (1st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-OPENCLAW-15325673
  • published22 Feb 2026
  • disclosed20 Feb 2026
  • creditaether-ai-agent

Introduced: 20 Feb 2026

NewCVE-2026-27576  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade openclaw to version 2026.2.19 or higher.

Overview

openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling due to missing prompt-size checks in the ACP local stdio bridge. An attacker can cause reduced responsiveness and increased resource usage by submitting excessively large prompt inputs through local ACP clients (for example, IDE integrations).

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1