Symlink Attack Affecting openclaw package, versions <2026.2.22
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- published5 Mar 2026
- disclosed4 Mar 2026
- creditaether-ai-agent
Introduced: 4 Mar 2026
New CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-59 (opens in a new tab)Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a category system for software weaknesses
How to fix?
Upgrade openclaw to version 2026.2.22 or higher.
Overview
openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Symlink Attack via the resolveIdentityAvatarUrl function. An attacker can access arbitrary files outside the intended workspace by supplying a crafted local avatar path that follows a symlink, resulting in the exposure of file contents as a base64-encoded data: URL in gateway responses.