Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties Affecting openclaw package, versions <2026.2.21


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-OPENCLAW-15374862
  • published4 Mar 2026
  • disclosed3 Mar 2026
  • creditq1uf3ng

Introduced: 3 Mar 2026

New CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-552  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade openclaw to version 2026.2.21 or higher.

Overview

openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties via the assertBrowserNavigationAllowed function. An attacker who has authenticated access to a gateway with browser tooling enabled can access and exfiltrate local files readable by the process user by navigating browser sessions to file:// URLs and extracting page content through browser snapshot or extraction actions.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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