Reliance on Untrusted Inputs in a Security Decision Affecting openclaw package, versions <2026.2.21
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- published4 Mar 2026
- disclosed3 Mar 2026
- creditAnthony DiSanti
Introduced: 3 Mar 2026
New CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-807 (opens in a new tab)Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a category system for software weaknesses
How to fix?
Upgrade openclaw to version 2026.2.21 or higher.
Overview
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Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Reliance on Untrusted Inputs in a Security Decision via improper parsing of the X-Forwarded-For header behind trusted proxies. An attacker can influence security decisions tied to client IP, such as authentication rate-limiting or local/private network classification, by supplying crafted header values. This is only exploitable if the deployment is configured with trusted proxies that append or preserve forwarding headers instead of overwriting them.