Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition Affecting openclaw package, versions <2026.4.22-beta.1
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- published5 May 2026
- disclosed4 May 2026
- creditVladimirEliTokarev
Introduced: 4 May 2026
NewCVE-2026-44113 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade openclaw to version 2026.4.22-beta.1 or higher.
Overview
openclaw is a 🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition due to a race condition in the process that reads and verifies files before returning bytes. An attacker can access data outside the intended mount root by exploiting a time-of-check/time-of-use window and swapping a symlink during filesystem reads.