High

OpenClaw: Agentic Consent Bypass — LLM Agent Can Silently Disable Exec Approval via `config.patch`

  • Disclosed: 03.04.2026
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 10:22

Summary

Agentic Consent Bypass: LLM Agent Can Silently Disable Exec Approval via config.patch

Current Maintainer Triage

  • Status: open
  • Normalized severity: high
  • Assessment: Maintainers accepted this issue, fixed it in 76411b2afc4ae721e36c12e0ea24fd23e2fed61e on 2026-03-27, and that fix shipped in v2026.3.28, so normalize it as a fixed released draft rather than a close-by-trust-model call.

Affected Packages / Versions

  • Package: openclaw (npm)
  • Latest published npm version: 2026.3.31
  • Vulnerable version range: <=2026.3.24
  • Patched versions: >= 2026.3.28
  • First stable tag containing the fix: v2026.3.28

Fix Commit(s)

  • 76411b2afc4ae721e36c12e0ea24fd23e2fed61e — 2026-03-27T09:42:15Z

OpenClaw thanks @YLChen-007 for reporting.

Affected software

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
npm package openclaw < 2026.3.28 2026.3.28

References

CVSS score -
CVSS vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:H/SA:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-285
Platform
npm
Package
openclaw
Disclosed
03.04.2026
Updated
11.10.2026 10:22

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-v3qc-wrwx-j3pw - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: openclaw

All published vulnerabilities of this package (npm package), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

All (588) in the archive
Total entries
588
First → latest
02.2026 07.2026
Without a fix
9
Exploited in attacks
0

Severity breakdown

  • Critical 20
  • High 215
  • Medium 299
  • Low 54

Disclosures per year

  1. 2026: 588
Severity:
  1. High · 8.8 CVE-2026-53811 < 2026.5.7 2026.5.7
  2. High · 8.8 CVE-2026-53806 < 2026.5.12 2026.5.12
  3. High · 7.8 CVE-2026-53813 < 2026.4.25 2026.4.25
  4. High · 7.5 CVE-2026-53834 < 2026.4.27 2026.4.27
  5. Critical CVE-2026-34507 < 2026.4.29 2026.4.29
  6. High CVE-2026-53823 < 2026.5.3 2026.5.3
  7. High · 8.4 CVE-2026-53814 < 2026.5.20 2026.5.20
  8. High · 6.5 CVE-2026-53815 < 2026.5.19 2026.5.19
  9. High · 8.1 CVE-2026-53849 < 2026.5.7 2026.5.7
  10. High · 8.1 CVE-2026-53857 < 2026.5.3 2026.5.3
  11. High · 8.1 CVE-2026-53866 < 2026.5.12 2026.5.12
  12. High · 8.1 CVE-2026-53864 < 2026.5.26 2026.5.26
  13. Critical · 9.8 CVE-2026-44109 < 2026.4.15 2026.4.15
  14. Critical · 8.1 CVE-2026-43585 < 2026.4.15 2026.4.15
  15. High · 8.8 CVE-2026-43530 >= 2026.2.23, < 2026.4.12 2026.4.12
  16. High · 8.8 CVE-2026-42434 >= 2026.4.5, < 2026.4.10 2026.4.10
  17. High · 7.5 CVE-2026-42437 >= 2026.4.9, < 2026.4.10 2026.4.10
  18. High CVE-2026-41393 < 2026.3.31 2026.3.31
  19. Critical · 8.2 CVE-2026-41296 < 2026.3.31 2026.3.31
  20. OpenClaw: Agentic Consent Bypass — LLM Agent Can Silently Disable Exec Approval via `config.patch` this entry
    High CVE-2026-41349 < 2026.3.28 2026.3.28
  21. High · 8.8 CVE-2026-41352 < 2026.3.31 2026.3.31
  22. High · 7.8 CVE-2026-41396 < 2026.3.31 2026.3.31
  23. High · 8.6 CVE-2026-35641 < 2026.3.24 2026.3.24
  24. High · 7.5 CVE-2026-35650 < 2026.3.22 2026.3.22
  25. High · 7.5 CVE-2026-32846 < 2026.03.28 2026.03.28
  26. High · 8.8 CVE-2026-33573 < 2026.3.11 2026.3.11
  27. Critical · 9.9 CVE-2026-22172 < 2026.3.12 2026.3.12
  28. Critical · 9.4 CVE-2026-32916 >= 2026.3.7, < 2026.3.11 2026.3.11
  29. High · 7.1 ghsa-gp3q-wpq4-5c5h < 2026.2.26 2026.2.26
  30. High · 7.4 CVE-2026-3690 < 2026.2.19 2026.2.19
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