CVE-2026-35645

OpenClaw < 2026.3.25 - Privilege Escalation via Synthetic operator.admin in deleteSession

State: Published
Severity: 6.1 Medium
Published: Apr 9, 2026
Updated: Jun 23, 2026
Reserved: Apr 4, 2026

Description

OpenClaw before 2026.3.25 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability in the gateway plugin subagent fallback deleteSession function that uses a synthetic operator.admin runtime scope. Attackers can exploit this by triggering session deletion without a request-scoped client to execute privileged operations with unintended administrative scope.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	6.1 Medium	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	VulnCheck
3.1	8.1 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H	VulnCheck

Weaknesses

CWE-648 Incorrect Use of Privileged APIs

Affected Products

Product	Versions
OpenClawOpenClaw	before 2026.3.25Affected 2026.3.25Not affected

References

GitHub Security Advisory (GHSA-h4jx-hjr3-fhgc)vendor-advisory
Patch Commitpatch
VulnCheck Advisory: OpenClaw < 2026.3.25 - Privilege Escalation via Synthetic operator.admin in deleteSessionthird-party-advisory

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