CVE-2026-32973

OpenClaw < 2026.3.11 - Exec Allowlist Pattern Overmatch via POSIX Path Normalization

State: Published
Severity: 8.8 High
Published: Mar 29, 2026
Updated: Jun 23, 2026
Reserved: Mar 17, 2026

Description

OpenClaw before 2026.3.11 contains an exec allowlist bypass vulnerability where matchesExecAllowlistPattern improperly normalizes patterns with lowercasing and glob matching that overmatches on POSIX paths. Attackers can exploit the ? wildcard matching across path segments to execute commands or paths not intended by operators.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	8.8 High	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	VulnCheck
3.1	9.8 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	VulnCheck

Weaknesses

CWE-625 Permissive Regular Expression

Affected Products

Product	Versions
OpenClawOpenClaw	before 2026.3.11Affected 2026.3.11Not affected

References

GitHub Security Advisory (GHSA-f8r2-vg7x-gh8m)vendor-advisory
VulnCheck Advisory: OpenClaw < 2026.3.11 - Exec Allowlist Pattern Overmatch via POSIX Path Normalizationthird-party-advisory

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